Unit 19540
Category: Layer dug in 2011
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: grave fill
Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: burial
Discussion: The grave fill was removed around the disturbed skelton. At least 3 adults were present. The grave pit was large and deep. The bones of the disturbed skeletons were arranged in the pit. At the bottom of the bones, there was a layer of plaster which appeared to demonstrate the end of the disarticulated skeletons. Charcoal was found concentrated in the chest region of a partially articulated skeleton.
Recognition: human bone in grave pit
Definition: clear
Execution: leaf trowel, brushes
Condition: hot, dry
Consistency: firm
Colour: grey, brown
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: obsidian, shell, charcoal
Post-depositional Features: plaster at bottom of bones; animal burrow
Basal Boundary: human bone o fanother individual, plaster
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Total Deposit Volume: 102
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4
Number of X-Finds 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
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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 2011 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 2 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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