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| Area: North |
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| Dug in Year: 2012 |
| Feature Type: burial |
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| Location: cut to SW corner of space 1002 |
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| Grid X: 1053.93 Grid Y: 1173.93 |
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This is a Roman/late Hellenistic burial of a single individual interred within a coffin. Grave orientation typical, E-W, rectangular cut and covered with greyish mud bricky material, similar to other post-Neolithic graves found on the mound.
The skeleton's head and chest were covered with a film of puddled deposit, the chest part actually containing the imprint of the coffin. These puddled deposits were clean clay deposits that only had charcoal inclusions within them.
The charcoal maybe is associated with some form of burnt deposit placed within the coffin.
The individual was laid with a blue glass jar by their head and had a pair of earrings and a ring.
This burial seems to have been interred the following way: cut 3689 was followed by the burial of the individual within a coffin. After the coffin was covered with rubble mixed orangish brown dirt. Then, a layer of clay was placed above and it seems like the grave was kept open for a while. This is evidenced by the puddling marks just above unit 19865.
There seems to be two episodes of puddling--please refer to photo and sketch on unit sheet. |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| adjacent to: (Click to view the record) 7103 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 1 |
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| Conservation Recorded: No |
| Related Photos: 12 (Opens as a group in a new window) | Buildings:
none | Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 6 (Click here to view unit list) |
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