Unit 8937

Category: layer    dug in 2004

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: pit infill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: 2,80 x 1,20 x 0,30 

Discussion: It is a second (lower) layer of an infill of a big pit in S edge of the extension. The first layer was unit 7845 and their common cut was 10908. This pit cut a burial (which as also cut from W side by Mellaarts trenches) from the E side. This skeleton (only upper part of the body) was excavated as unit 8989 lying within unit 7820 - without cut. Within the infill 8937 there was found one femur (unit 8988) which may belong to the individual of unit 8989 and got to this infill while destroying the burial.
Both infills - units 7845 and 8937 are placed within the cut 10908 in the base of which a mudbricks grave marker was found (made of diagonally placed bricks) which was marking another burial dug into the cut 10908. This burial was excavated as units 8917 - grave marker; 10936 (infill), 10937 (skeleton), 10938 (cut). 

Recognition: shape and consistency 

Definition: a layer of infill in a large pit in S part of an extention 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: cool (!) and windy 

Consistency: loose to friable 

Colour: dark grey 

Texture: silty sand 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: pottery, bones, obsidian 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrowing 

Basal Boundary: distinct, sloping in E 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 10908 below: (Click to view the record) 7845 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

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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