Unit 13607
Category: Layer dug in 2006
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: grave fill
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit
Discussion: Grave fill made up of material excavated when the grave was dug and includes orange clay, fragments of plaster and obsidian flakes. The obsidian flakes probably originate from these disturbed floor level rather than being deliberate grave goods.
Part of the pelvis and skull of the skeleton were exposed on removal or the floor sealing the grave (13604)
Recognition: colour and composition change
Definition: clear
Execution: in plan, leaf trowel
Condition: hot,dry
Consistency: soft, friable
Colour: mainly mid grey/brown, some pink/orange clay and white plaster
Texture: fine silty clay
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: obsidian, sparse tinyshell fragements, wall/floor plaster
Post-depositional Features: animal burrow
Basal Boundary: clear, onto room fill of earlier building.
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 52
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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Finds Room Information:
All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.
X Finds Material: nothing recorded
Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded
Lab Team Data
Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramics Data for 2006 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: No Figurine Records: No GroundStone Records: No Heavy Residue Records: No Microfaunal Records: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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