Unit 8891

Category: Cut    dug in 2004

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: burial cut 

Data Category Information: Description: burial

Dimensions: 1.78m E-W x 0.55 m N-S (min 0.38 m N-S at W end) 

Discussion: The cut appears to have been made as a single occurrence for a single burial in a W-E orientation and cuts through the E wall of Space 243. It is shallower than the surrounding burial cuts and the N and S sides of the cut are quite irregular, particularly where it truncates the E wall of Space 243. The E end of the cut was especially difficult to identify, and on closer inspection after the fact it appears it may actually have been dug past as the fill was at times quite difficult to distinguish from the surrounding soil. The base of the cut is quite irregular with a bricky layer below and the E end higher than the center and the W end. The cut, made for a single burial, seems unrelated to the architectural features in which it was made, evidence that it was a (much) later event. The number of similarly oriented burial cuts nearby may indicate this was part of a cemetary. 

Recognition: texture, color 

Definition: clear - truncates E wall of Space 243 

Execution: trowel, brush 

Condition: dry 

Shape: rectangular/irregular 

Sides: vertical 

Base Break: sharp 

Base: irregular 

Orientation: W-E 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 8890 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

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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