Unit 5179

Category: Cluster    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Basket lid 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: burial; Material: phytolith; Deposition: primary deposition

Dimensions: 22cm n-s x ~18cm e-w <1mm thick 

Discussion: Phytolith basket lid-half lying directly over skeleton 5177. The lid appears to have fallen in downwards and also moved off centre in relation to the basket-nw. Half of it was in good repair and in half (the part covering the skeleton) the concentric rings were barely visible. 

Recognition: White phytolith traces in concentric ring shape overlying skeleton 5177 

Definition: Extebt of traces overlying skely 

Execution: Small dental instruments 

Condition: Quite good 

Consistency: Soft and friable-phytoliths 

Colour: White concentric rings 

Texture: Very fine silica 

Bedding: One layer 

Inclusions: Phytolith (all) 

Post-depositional Features: Looks as tough it has moved nw and suken into the burial 

Basal Boundary: Very prominent-sharo- anthropic 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 5177 below: (Click to view the record) 5153 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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