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| Area: South |
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| Dug in Year: 1998 |
| Feature Type: Burial |
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| Location: Roughly centrally located to space 115 and equally distant to North and South walls. |
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| Grid X: 914.4 Grid Y: 973.3 |
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Fill, skeleton and cut for burial located in space 115, the 'midden' area. Skeleton located at interface of quite obvious change and deposition from fine ashy lenses to larger dumps of more clayey matrix but also of rubbish debris type. The burial was clearly an unusual event to take place in this so called external area - in a non-burial context which raised a number of questions on why this particular individual was not buried in a house. Questions in whether the individual had been an outcast, an outsider, a disfigured individual, even invader victim (into the realms of fantasy). The change of deposition type may be significant; the overlying deposits interfaced as secondary 'dump' deposits, being of a mixed nature with all the elements of 'midden' and similar in appearance and probably contemporary
with the infilling of space 117. The crucial change is represented by surface 3181 which definitely sealed the burial. The cut was larger than the space of the skeleton which occupied it, the empty space located to the NW of the cut which may have been due to the burial replacement, e.g.. not placed in the cut carefully or squarely. This may suggest therefore that the body was placed in a wrapping or container. The location of the hands and feet could also suggest some form of binding which would also occur if placed in a container/basket but there was no visible evidence for either binding or basket.
The unusual posture of the skeleton is apparently the result of post-burial dislodging as interpreted by reconstruction drawing done by Lucy and Theya. |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 |
| Conservation Recorded: No |
| Related Photos: 2 (Opens as a group in a new window) | Buildings:
none | Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 3 (Click here to view unit list) |
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