Unit 32739

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Burial fill 

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

Discussion: The top surface of the infill U.32739 had been revealed after exploration of the packing deposit U.32088 already in 2016. Since that time the U.32739 as a distinct, but terribly truncated layer was considered to be a bottom of the cut U.32087.
In 2017 season during the excavation of the earlier burial F.8325 situated to the South it appeared that the layer 32739 represents burial fill, whose extent was difficult to identify before due to the depth, limited scope of investigation and bell-shaped cut 32087.
The in-depth scrutiny revealed that the sediments that composed the described fill most plausibly contain also parts of the fill U.32733 which sealed the earlier sepulchral feature F.8325. Both burials were placed within the platform F.7734 in different time and for that reason younger (F.7747) truncated the older one (F.8325).
Furthermore in the course of the conducted investigation within the burial fill 32788 there was identified primary inhumation Sk. 32741 and disturbed parts of the two skeletons: 32742, 32743. The latter two of the human remains come from the earlier burials (e.g. F.8325 and F.8331). As such the fill 32739 must be regarded as multiple burial fill disturbed at least 2 times. 

Consistency: friable to firm 

Colour: multicolored depending on inclusions: dark grey, mig-orange, mid-brown 

Texture: sandy silt, silty-clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: fragments of bricks - 20%, mortar - 10%, charcoal - 5% 

Post-depositional Features: Truncation by the later burial F.7739 

Basal Boundary: distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32741, 32742, 32743, 32087 below: (Click to view the record) 32088 

Dry sieve volume: 540 

Total Deposit Volume: 600 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 12

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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