Unit 13191

Category: Layer    dug in 2006

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: burial fill 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: Late human burial fill. Occasional artifacts (some ceramic fragments and half a clay ball) and animal splinters and teeth, with no apparent relationship. Some dispersed charcoal flecks, especially in the east side. Contained a poorly preserved, Byzantine skeleton. A piece of burnt pottery, of aproximately 4 by 4 cm and a thickness similar to that of a skull bone, was placed on the south side of the skull and positioned as if it was part of the skull This might be coincidental but I thought it was interesting to note. 

Recognition: Fill around human skull 

Definition: Clear in the west side, more diffuse in the east side 

Execution: trowel and leaf trowel 

Condition: dry at top, humidity increasing with depth 

Consistency: variable - soft to firm 

Colour: Light brownish grey, lighter at the bottom 

Texture: Sandy silt 

Bedding: Mainly massive 

Inclusions: Occassional charcoal flecks, obsidian, pottery fragments, bone, teeth, clay ball 

Post-depositional Features: plant roots 

Basal Boundary: diffuse, difficult to define 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 13192 below:+

Dry sieve volume: 40 

Total Deposit Volume: 223 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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