Unit 19161

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Burial Fill 

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

Description: Top part of the fill consists of packed plaster fragments 

Discussion: Backfill of burial cut for adolescent skeleton sk. 19165. Fill contains some quantity of plaster & mudbrick fragments showing that it was dug through plaster floors & make-up material & then backfilled with the same material. Top of fill consisted of packed plaster frags suggesting some attempt to rebuild plaster floor over this burial. This would have made the burial very visible, however the plaster packing was cracked & slumping into the burial when make-up layer 19150 was laid down demonstrating that the plaster packing was not an adequate long-term solution for sealing the burial 

Consistency: Compacted 

Colour: Mid brownish grey 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: occasional plaster & mudbrick chunks (>5%)I occasional charcoal (>1%) 

Post-depositional Features: Some root disturbance 

Basal Boundary: clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 19165 below: (Click to view the record) 19150 

Total Deposit Volume: 63 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

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:

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

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