| Entry: | Windy day today, not so hot, workable weather.
In Trench 6 the work is still going on, but just the Features next to the southern Trenchedge (F2454, F2456) were today finished, thanks to Naoise, who did a great job!
Helen finally exposed the skeleton (13849) in the northern grave (F2455) in the layer of scattered mudbricks (13848) and started drawing this with the help of Scott, just the feet and finger bones are to draw tomorrow and then the skeleton is ready to be lifted.
The situation of the disturbed stone cist (F2451) becomes a little more clearer. Leyla and Tuncan found the northern edge of the disturbing pit (F2459) in which it seems to be that a second skeleton (13879) is disarticulated laying in the pit fill (13878). Today there were some longbones (arm?) discvered. But the southern edge is still unknown, maybe we`ll find it tomorrow.
Another interesting question is the stratigraphic situation of these two "burials" and how they are conected to the maybe chalcolithic plastered floor (13875) which is discovered direct north of them.
Tom today worked at the drawing of the plasterd floors and related units, no changes since yesterday, todays work was drawing this area and brushing for photographies. Peter today excavated the southeastern edge of this area, next to the stone cist, but the situation here is alittle bit unclear and needed to be discussed.
In the big cist (F2458) there is the skeleton (13881) now reached, but it seems to me that this skeleton is heavily disturbed in the upper body. The skull is nearly 20cm higher than the rest of the body, and the neckvertebra (I think) and claviculae are not articulated but the ribs and lower vertebrae are articulated (I think). So it is possible that a robbery pit disturbs this burial, which might also be the reason of the missing western end of this pit. The complex mixtuer of building materials now became a little bit clearer, in greater depth the stones (13860) disappear and the wall is build of mudbricks (13867), except of the eastern end where there is a larger stone.
Nick did a great Job in excavating the disturbance pit (13870) which cuts into the rectangular pit (maybe another late roman burial, but not which desturbed the maybe chalcolithic plastered floor (13942). In the nothern profile there is another floor appearing, hopefully matching 13842.Entered By: CS |
