Unit 30092

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: burial fill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: this unit represente fourth layer of fill burial F.7982. in this layer the beging of the emergence of human bons, skul…

Lowest fill of burial f.7982 which surrounds skeleton 32324. Heat affected which has preserved some organic remains from the body which have been sampled with the skeleton but may aIso be present in this deposit. Contains charcoal, plaster & some mudbrick frags with a similar composition to the floor & levelling deposits it was cut through showing that it was probably backfilled with this material.

Unit was prioritized to see how similar this burial was to the neighboring burial 7956 as the skeletons were buried in similar pos3itions. The botanical remains were found to be of a low level density, similar to other burial fills, suggesting that he burial was not wrapped in making or other organic remains. Chipped shore & faunal also reported normal levels & types of material for a burial fill. The animal bones were reported to be less burnt than the human remains, perhaps indicative of flesh/ organic material burning on the corpse, rarer than redeposited, clean animal bones?

The beads found with the body were a wide variety of types, including steel, stone, boar tusk, deer tooth & worked cow/sheep bone.

The wooden bowl found with the body was maple wood and well made, with a that base & 3-4cm thick sides.

It was also noted that the fill of the burial was similar in character to a dirty floor, and so some of the floor surfaces on the platform were prioritized for botanical remains in order to see if they similar to dirty floors-32344, 32365, 32371. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: Mid grey 

Texture: Silty clay 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: clay aggregettes 10%, charbon 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrow 

Basal Boundary: diffuse 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32324 below: (Click to view the record) 30091 

Total Deposit Volume: 67 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 15

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 11

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.

X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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