Unit 7253

Category: Layer    dug in 2001

Area: Trench I 

Interpretive Categories: spit 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: 3.95m EW x 3.1m NS x 0.1-0.15m deep 

Description: Defined as arbitrary spit below (7247) 

Discussion: This layer was taken as an arbitrary spit to define / expose the full depth of the pit with cut (7218). As we started to mattock we realise that is was not simply pit fill that we had been removing. We came on to a clean surface that appeared at first to be a mudbrick wall running E-W through the trench… Then we hit a large ring (?unclear word on form) of stone in the NE half of the trench, so we stopped and cleaned up on that level. We removed 10-20cm of soil right across the pit so to define the structure lying beneath. We came to the rather destroyed remains of a grave with tile and concrete lining and ther red plaster paint. What we originally though was a mudbrick wall is in fact the grave cut on the N side, and we also determined one on the S side. These seem to cut probable chalcolithic layers hence giving the appearance of mudbrick. All of the concrete, tile and limestone removed in the upper pit fills are related to the robbing or accidental disturbance of this grave by subsequent pit activity. The femur in the N grave cur section may be part od the body once interred within the grave/tomb. 

Recognition: Defined as arbitrary spit below (7247) 

Definition: defined after we had reached point where we had fully defined pit edges and were going to take a slot down to the bottm of the pit 

Execution: mattock, torwel, shovel 

Condition: windy dry but beautifully overcast 

Consistency: soft and friable 

Colour: orangish brown. Dry: 7.5YR 6/4 light brown. Wet: 7.5YR 4/2 brown 

Texture: silty loam 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: frequent white Byzantine concrete. Occasional tile and brick, occasional subangular small-medium stones. Frequent fish scales and associated bones. Orange frags of ?brick/daub - associated with the white concrete. Frequent chalc pottery 

Post-depositional Features: roots and animals, also anthromorphic activity 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary but hit top of grave - Byzantine grave with tile and concrete with painted plaster decoration 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above:F728below: (Click to view the record) 7247 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 1224 

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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