Unit 1982

Category: layer    dug in 1997

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Mixed grave deposits 

 

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

 

Dimensions: 0.5mx0.3m 

 

Description: Feature is the group of 36,47,202 

 

Discussion: This was a very mixed, variable deposit that probably represents a series of different grave fills from different inhumation episodes. However, as the material was so mixed , it was proving very difficult to identify any interfaces. To speed excavation up in space 71, This material was all treated as one (mixed) unit and removed as one.
In general, the material to the Northeast of this deposits' extent was much more plastery, and this was undoubtedly different to the rest. Again it graded into this other material though, and a convincing interface was not forthcoming.
This overlay series of different skeletons, and as soon as individual burials were identified different fill numbers were issued. 

 

Execution: trowel, leaf 

Condition: Hot 

Consistency: weak 

Colour: Y 5 YR 6/3 light brown 

Texture: Sandy silt 

Bedding: Massive, occassional compound layers- tip lines of plaster 

Inclusions: Charcoal <5mm length,<2% scattered flecks; plaster/mortar -scattered crushed, some forming tip lines, some in lumps; dark grey mortar<10 cm length, <2% in deposit probably from wall; irregular hardened clay lumps;<10mm length <2% in deposit ; mineral salts 

Post-depositional Features: Roots, salts along the rootlets, disturbance by animal barrow 

Basal Boundary: Difficult to separate from lower fills of graves. 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 1989, 2126, 2168, 2118 below: (Click to view the record) 1946 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 1 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 1

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 71

Features:: (Click to view the record) 36 (burial) 47 (burial)   202 (burial)

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 contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramic Records: No

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 records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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