Unit 16503
Category: Layer dug in 2008
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: burial fill
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial; Deposition: homogeneous
Discussion: Removal of burial fill of skeleton hanging out of the profile. The burial cut is unclear and after re-examining the profile, it is likely that the cut belongs to a surface or layer below this layer. Fill contained charcoal concentrated around left arm and ribs. A hard lump of dark grey material was found just behind the left humerus and on top of rib cage. Fill contained a lot of charcoal.
Recognition: bones coming out of profile and depression in surface
Definition: unclear
Execution: trowel
Condition: dry and hot
Consistency: soft
Colour: yellow-brown with some white and dark grey patches
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: charcoal, stones; small andmoderate
Post-depositional Features: heavily truncated to the west
Basal Boundary:
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 8
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
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 2008 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 1 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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