Unit 1956

Category: layer    dug in 1997

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: burial fill 

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

Dimensions: 0.5 m long, 0.25 m wide, 0.20 m thick (max) 

Discussion: This deposit fills "grave"/ pit cut 1958, and therefore stratigraphically post dates burials 42 A + 42 B. Physically however, this material also ran underneath the burials, and the excavator could make no distinction between the soil above, around and below the bones of both burials. This, and the mixed nature of the deposit, suggest it was a product of deliberate dumping. Rather than representing in situ burials therefore, 42 A + 42 B are likely to be disarticulated human remains, though some grouping does appear to have taken place. The south-western edge of this deposit has been truncated away by later grave cuts, and it has been truncated horizontally by burial although it is stratigraphically awkward, deposit 1956 has been put above unit 1961 (burial 42 B), and below unit (burial 42 A). This seems to me to be the best way of representing the situation in the ground, rather than having to assign another unit number to the material below burial 42 B, because this was the same. 

Execution: trowel + hand shovel 

Condition: dry, windy, warm 

Consistency: loose- weak (variable) 

Colour: mostly 10 YR 4/2 dark greyish brown, but with white plastery inclusions - dries to 10 YR 5/2 

Texture: silty sand (20:50 approx 

Bedding: variable- mostly massive, but there are some few fine lenses of compound layered plaster. ) 

Inclusions: occasional small bone frags (<5mm <2%), occasional to moderate (variable) plaster frags (<3mm <5%) and crushed plaster and also scattered charcoal flecks (<3%) 

Post-depositional Features: bioturbation - penetrated by fine rootlets also to south disturbed by a small mammal burrow 

Basal Boundary: Lower interface is not that clear (5-10mm), though southern edge of 1956 it was hard to distinguish from the cut 1958. fairly smooth and regular however. Contrast poor - interface found by "feel" more than colour difference. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1961 below: (Click to view the record) 1484 equal to: (Click to view the record) 1920 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

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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