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| Area: South |
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| Dug in Year: 2006 |
| Feature Type: burial |
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| Location: in platform F1525 |
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| Grid X: 917.6 Grid Y: 960.2 |
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Burial of adolescent, tightly flexed and laid on back, disturbed by rodent activity.
Phytolith remains suggest a binding around body and legs, also two bone pins12528x1 and 12523x3 may point to a shroud; otherwise 3 beads were recovered as the only grave goods: 12528x2, a triangular blue bead aprox 1.5cm long, from the neck area and two smaller beads on the left elbow; 12528x3 and 12528x4.
The body was placed in a grave cut into the NE platform F1525 of B53. It appears that it was cut through a plaster surface (12564) and once filled was plastered over with (11384). The burial occupies the lower third/ quarter of the cut with (12523) backfilling almost the entire cut- a mixture of material removed from beneath the platform. The upper 30mm or so of the cut was filled with a white plaster. It appears as if an obsidian blade (12523x2) was deliberately inserted vertically into the top of (12523) before the plaster was added, or pushed down through plaster before it hardened! |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| cuts: (Click to view the record) 1525 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 |
| Conservation Recorded: No |
| Related Photos: 62 (Opens as a group in a new window) | Buildings: (Click to view the record)
| Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 4 (Click here to view unit list) |
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