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| Area: South |
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| Dug in Year: 1999 |
| Feature Type: burial |
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| Location: Towards the south-east corner of Space 173 |
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| Grid X: 920.24 Grid Y: 968.48 |
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Burial of a small baby in a basket with lid, cut very shallow against the east wall of Space 163 and towards the south of the space at the 'clean/dirty' interface. The skeleton (4927) was tightly curled up and flush against the edge of the basket/cut (4932). The head was crushed and towards the west, with the legs towards the east. With the exception of the right arm, all of the limbs and extremeties had been heavily disturbed by faunal activity.
Only a small fragment of the burial basket (4931) survived, but the lid (4924) was about 65% intact. Above the skeleton and below the lid was an intermittent layer of orange material (4925), thought to be an organic deposit, and sampled as such. The burial lay at a very similar elevation to baby burials in Space 163, though was apparently unique in Space 173. |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| cuts?: (Click to view the record) 498 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 |
| Conservation Recorded: No |
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| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 7 (Click here to view unit list) |
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