Well defined pit, cut into SE corner of Sp272, with walls F1527 and F1534 on eastern and southern sides. Deliberately backfilled rapidly. Single groundstone and quantity of bone recovered.
Pit cuts through what is likely to be a floor/ surface of sorts, possibly to retrieve a cache. So a storage pit of some sort.
A foetus skeleton F1541 was placed in corner on top of upper fill when a new levelling layer (12597) was layed in Sp272.
Discussion
The best defined pit in Sp272 by a long way, in contrast to the others which are much more diffuse.
(Other pits in area; [12515], [12596], [14319], [12586], all without feature No's, and [12590], F1542 and [12591], F1543.)
Appears to be a rapidly dug and backfilled pit, probably originally used to store certain items/ goods which were recovered and a new surface layed in Sp272. The other pits in this space all seem to tell a similar story of storage and recovery. |
