Short Description:
Neonatal skeleton in storage pit [4110] F439
Issued to
Nat Jackson | 11/12/2019
Interpretation
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- Neonatal skeleton placed in the centre of an iron age storage pit on the base of the pit. No cut for burial, just within the fill (4111).
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- Nat Jackson
- 17-12-2019
Sketch Photo
Description
- Foetal
- Sideways, facing west
- Bent into body, hand bones in sample
- Bent into body, hand bones in sample
- Contracted into body
- Contracted into body
- Not seen
- Of the bones seen there is pretty good preservation considering how fragile they are
- Mainly ok, the skull is fragmented, the torso seems to be missing, hopefully the bones were caught in the sample,
Finds
Feature
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Feature: WIT_439
- Storage pit with neonatal burial
Site Photos
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Photo: WIT_200507
- South west facing section of pit F#439, 1m scale, shot facing north east
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Photo: WIT_200842
- Neonatal sk.4531, shot facing E, 0.40m scale
Record Details
- Not set
- Nat Jackson 11-12-2019
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