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| Area: North |
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| Dug in Year: 2012 |
| Feature Type: burial |
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| Location: Cuts the middle of sp.95 |
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| Grid X: 1051.7 Grid Y: 1180.3 |
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This is a late burial truncating the burnt rubble infill of sp 1002. The burial seems to have belonged to an adult female (remarks from the human bones team). The individual was most likely buried in a coffin as we found a nail within the infill (19445). Skeleton 19456 was extremely friable and not entirely complete. Like other late burials in the area, after the body was placed with the coffin to the ground, mud brick was placed above the coffin. Its proximity to the surface suggests mound erosion from the burial time to this day.
The boundaries of the burial were very diffuse, though the cut became more apparent as we began to excavate it. After the skeleton was removed, a bone object was found where the head would have been- beautiful worked bone (horn as it was really heavy) object; possibly a hair pin some 15cm long. While the human remains team postulated that the individual was female by looking at the bones, the hair pin solidified their finding. |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 1 |
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| Conservation Recorded: No |
| Related Photos: 3 (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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