Grave/burial feature. Cut contained partially articulated remains of an adult, mostly likely male. Cut of burial fairly diffuse, and for a long time was not clear, missing due to midden deposits into which this grave is cut, but also due to heavy truncated by NS grave, F1512. Both cuts and relationships were only revealed after much of the cut was excvated.
Much of the grave and skeleton has been disturbed, and disarticulated adult bone that can be associated with sk(10499) was recovered from the highly disturbed backfill of [10459] F1512.
The grave has been cut at a later date, and indeed a later phase within the construction of building 42 by another grave cut [10459]. Due to this level of truncation, only a very small percentage of articulation remained. Although the cut of the later grave was not easy to determine during excavation, the abrupt start of articulation to the eastern end of [10468] provides a sound suggestion to the level of this truncation.
A tool cache was also found in direct relation to the burial located just to the SE of the pelvis. 3 stone (obsidian and flint) tools were displayed in an upstanding formation, overlapping one another. All tools were not locally made, most likely originating from Sothern Cappadoccia. 2 otother tools were also found.
See unis [10468] and (10499) for further discussion. |
