Unit 3450
Category: skeleton dug in 2000
Area: Trench I
Interpretive Categories: Burial
Data Category Information: none
Dimensions: Length 1.55m x width (max.) - ?
Discussion: Extended inhumation in sub-rectilinear grave cut. Bone in good condition althought the body has been partially disturbed by animal activity. Lower left arm broken (radius and ulna shattered), probably due to human disturbance.
Burial - Christian type with no grave goods, Byzantine in date owing to the grave cover (Byzantine tiles x3). Finger and toe bones have been dispersed/disturbed by animal birrowing. Skull slightly friable owing to being exposed in 1998.
X and Y of Targets: Target A - X: 0; Target A - Y: 0; Target B - X: 0; Target B - Y: 0; Target C - X: 0; Target C - Y: 0; Target D - X: 0; Target D - Y: 0
Body: Oriented east-west with head at west end. Extended inhumation lying supine (on back)
Head: On right hand side, facing south
Right Arm: Slightly disturbed, top of right arm at jaw, right hand at pelvis/top of femur
Left Arm: By left hand side, only humerus complete, radius and ulna shattered
Right Leg: Extended below body, foot turned to the north, foot bones disturbed
Left Leg: Extended below body, foot turned to the north
Other comments: Body slightly disturbed, jaw completely in the wrong place - ?animal disturbance
Surface Modifications: Animal disturbance in the area of the right lower leg and foot espacially
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
Buildings: none |
Spaces: none |
Features:: none |
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 2000 still to be released 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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