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Short Description:
Skull located in possible flue of F217
Issued to
Anita Elkes | 12/09/2020
1209

Interpretation

    • A skull located in the flue of F217, it has been disturbed in antiquity, possibly when F217 was being levelled a back filled.
      • Nat Jackson
    • 15-9-2020
    • Given a separate skeleton number because it's a skull but it is within the fill (2177) and thus a part of that fill.
      • Nat Jackson
    • 13-10-2020

Sketch Photo

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Stratigraphic Matrix

Description

  • Unknown
  • Skull in two fragments, cranium upside down abutting a large stone thought to be part of a flue, mandible located by it but not with it.
  • Not present
  • Not present
  • Not present
  • Not present
  • Not present
  • Pretty good
  • Fair, some breakages on mandible
  • Appears to only be a skull and a fragment of scapula in the fill of the potential flue of a circular feature. Given a separate skeleton number because it's a skull but it is within the fill (2177) which is why the matrix is incomplete.

Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Human bone 3 58 Scapula and clavicle (Year 2020)
Human bone 4 5 Teeth (Year 2020)
Human bone 1 427 Skull (Year 2020)
Human bone 2 1 Malleus (Year 2020)
Human bone 97 9 Skull fragments (Year 2020)
Human bone 3 87 Jaw bone fragments (Year 2020)
Human bone 13 46 Skull fragments (Year 2020)
Stone 1 10 Quartz pebble - discarded (Year 2020)
Shell 1 1 Snail shell fragment (Year 2020)
Ceramic Building Material 1 2 (Year 2020)

Feature

  • No records attached.

Site Photos

  • Photo: LDF_200428
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    • Sk2172, facing west, 40cm scale
  • Photo: LDF_200504
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    • Sk2172, facing west, 40cm scale

Record Details

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  • Anita Elkes 12-9-2020
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