North(Y) coordinate should be 1164.5, but the database doesn't seem to like decimals.
This feature comprises a burial found while excavating Unit 7549. That unit consisted of clearing topsoil and scraping to render the archaeological deposit(s) visible for rough planning (see Plan 03-026). Excavation revealed a plaster platform which wsa badly eroded to the north, where the skeleton was thus exposed. It was apparently buried below the platform, and although the burial matrix was not solid plaster, there were plaster inclusions mixed throughout the soil of the burial fill. We were unable to define any clear burial cut.
A bifacial obsidian point (7549-X1) was set in the plaster platform ýtself, we discovered when cutting part of the platform in order to access the burial.,
Removal of the entire skeleton (in many small pieces) revealed that it was nearly complete, but the head and feet were conspicuously absent. Some human bone removed ýn the topsoil layer may account for those partsö but not in their entirety, suggesting either their original absence or the skeleton's prior exposure.
Upon completing the removal, two rýbs, an innominate, and the distal head of a humerus belonging to another individual became apparent directly below the pelvis of Skeleton 7531. These were tagged with the date and covered, to be later excavated in context as and when possible. |
