Unit 8980

Category: Cut    dug in 2004

Area: TP 

Interpretive Categories: burial pit cut 

Data Category Information: Description: burial

Dimensions: 2,18 x 0,60 x 0,60 

Discussion: It is a cut of a burial in S part of an extension.The skeleton within this pit was excavated as unit 8983 and its infill was registered as 8976. There were also two other units associated with this burial - these were - grave superstructure (8975) and a grave marker (7890).
The cut was partly under cutting and in its S side was forming a kind of niche.
This burial pit (feature 1171) was dug into an older cut (unit 8974). 

Recognition: consistency, colour 

Definition: a cut of a burial pit ( infill 7876, skeleton 8983) 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: hot, dry 

Shape: ovoid, irregular 

Sides: vertical (in n side), under cutting (in S part) - forming a kind of a niche 

Base Break: vertical 

Base: sloping in E 

Orientation: E - W 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 13055 below: (Click to view the record) 8983 

Dry sieve 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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