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Basic Information

  • Storage pit with neonatal burial

Contexts

  • Context: WIT_4110
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    • Storage pit, F439
    • Nat Jackson
    • 11-12-2019
  • Context: WIT_4111
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    • Fill of [4110], F439
    • Nat Jackson
    • 11-12-2019
  • Context: WIT_4531
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    • Neonatal skeleton in storage pit [4110] F439
    • Nat Jackson
    • 11-12-2019

Narrative

    • A moderate size Iron Age storage pit in the south east of trench 4. It was steep sided and a flat base, it had a diameter of 1.10 meters and a depth of 0.40 meters. It contained a single fill, at the base and in the centre a neonatal skeleton (Sk.4531) had been placed. It was noticed upon cleaning that there was more than one individual in this pit, however only one complete skeleton.
      • Nat Jackson
    • 14-4-2020

Dating Narrative

  • No Interpretations

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