Infant burial (neolithic), body on right hand side with head at east, facing north. Both legs bent with knees to east of pelvis. Skull slightly crushed. Of note were the ear bones (stirrup, hammer and anvil), recovered in excellent condition.
Skeleton buried in shallow cut, diffuse in places. Directly to the south was burial F1536, it is likely they were buried at a similar time as neither one disturbs the other. Burial appears to be cut into upper fill of pit [12590]. A diffuse make up/ levelling deposit covers them and extends throughout Sp272.
Suggest that babies were buried while use of space changed or renewed, pos double burial? |
