Unit 8976

Category: layer    dug in 2004

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: burial infill 

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

Dimensions: 2.18 x 0.60 x 0,60 

Discussion: It is an infill of a burial in S part of an extension. The skeleton within this pit was excavated as unit 8983 and its cut was registered as 8980. There were also two other units associated with ten's burial - these were - grave superstucture (8975) and a grave marker (7890). The infill was mixed in colour and within it there were found some fragments of mudbricks - two of them were lying an the skeleton - on the ribs and the other on the left knee.
This burial pit (feature 1171) was dug into the older cut (unit 8974). 

Recognition: consistency, colour 

Definition: an infill of a burial pit (cut 8980, skeleton 8983) 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot, dry 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: light to dark brown with lots of inclusions - ash, charcoal 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: pottery, animal bones, obsidian, fragments of mudbricks, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: rodent borrowings 

Basal Boundary: prominent 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 8983 below: (Click to view the record) 8975 

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:

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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