Short Description:
Skeleton of infant cut into ditch F414, corner slot of building
Issued to
Ben Swain | 18/01/2021
Interpretation
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- burial of a very young baby. laid out in a supine frog-legged position, this baby was buried near the top of ditch F414 in fill 9075. A cut was not obviously visible during excavation but is likely to have existed
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- Ben Swain
- 19-1-2021
Sketch Photo
Description
- Supine
- Poor condition, perhaps tilted to its left
- Lying across pelvis
- Surviving upper arm is extended straight beside the body
- In the infant 'frog leg' position
- In the infant 'frog leg' position
- Not surviving
- The bone is in fair condition with extensive damage to the skull and missing small hand and feet bones
- Fair- fragile
- Orientated approximately NNE-SSW. Head at the North end