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Short Description:
Adult skeleton at north of trench 2 east
Issued to
Mark Pickard | 14/09/2018
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Interpretation

    • Her/she is on their side and appear to be crouched, at this stage only the skull, shoulders, ribs and pelvis are showing. The brow looks masculine.
      • Mark Pickard
    • 14-9-2018
    • Possibly male, distuburbed burial, shoulder and arm seem to be in the wrong place. Buried in a foetal or crouched position
      • Jenny Lewis
    • 15-9-2018
    • Skeleton lying on its side. Armed crossed across the rib cage. Fairly prominent brow ridge, possibly male
      • Thomas Webster-Deakin
    • 15-9-2018
    • Possible male by brow ridge, in a foetal position.
      • Teresa Simpson
    • 15-9-2018
    • Unusual inhumatoion - body and head lying on right side as if in a crouched burial, but leg is extended. Right leg is missing. Grave is clearly disturbed, since both animal bone and part of another human jaw were found in leg area, but upper body and left leg are still articulated.
      • John Horrocks
    • 16-9-2018
    • Possible deviant burial as the body is turned to its side but the sole leg is stretched out flat- body probably not been turned to that position due to later disturbance (which would explain the missing leg, animal bone, and a part of human jaw in the fill) as the body would not be as articulated as it is.
      • Hannah Kirby
    • 16-9-2018

Sketch Photo

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Stratigraphic Matrix

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Description

  • Head and torso turned on to its side, pelvis half turned, leg straight. Looks like it would have been originally laid supine
  • Turned on its right side
  • Body lying on its right arm, with hand on its hip
  • Moved out of shoulder socket and lying over torso, resting on its hand
  • Straight with knee facing up
  • Missing
  • Right foot looks pointed but disturbance with the toes
  • Good but burial seems to have been disturbed
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Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Bone 1 79 not defined comment is butchery? (Year 2018)
Daub 1 34 possible daub (Year 2018)
Other (add to description) 2 205 lime plaster (Year 2018)
Slag 1 50 ferrous slag? (Year 2018)
Stone 16 175 Quartz pebbles (Year 2018)
Human bone 3 202 Sacrum (Year 2018)
Human bone 23 548 Vetrebrae (Year 2018)
Human bone 7 2 (Year 2018)
Human bone 68 213 right ribs (Year 2018)
Human bone 15 21 Hyoid (Year 2018)
Human bone 44 164 Left ribs (Year 2018)
Human bone 21 79 (Year 2018)
Human bone 2 48 Clavicle (Year 2018)
Human bone 11 142 L & R shoulder (Year 2018)
Human bone 22 583 Right leg (Year 2018)
Human bone 7 217 Right arm (Year 2018)
Human bone 2 415 Pelvis (Year 2018)
Human bone 9 186 Left arm (Year 2018)
Human bone 32 132 Right foot (Year 2018)
Human bone 22 46 Right hand (Year 2018)
Human bone 18 43 Left hand (Year 2018)
Human bone 17 775 Skull and mandible plus fragments and 2 loose teeth (incisors) (Year 2019)

Feature

  • Feature: LDF_216
    • Skeleton - Articulated human remains at the North of the eastern side of the trench

Site Photos

  • Photo: LDF_180247
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    • Post-excavation photo of skeleton (2067), looking west, 1m and 0.4m scales

Samples

  • Sample: LDF_102
    • Rita Baker
    • 20-9-2018

Record Details

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  • Mark Pickard 14-9-2018
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