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Short Description:
Child skeleton inside box feature in Tr2E
Issued to
Yasi Zhou | 21/09/2022
2182

Interpretation

    • Juvenile burial placed inside stone 'box'
      • Harriet Tatton
    • 19-5-2023

Sketch Photo

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Stratigraphic Matrix

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Description

  • Aligned east-west. Head at east and feet west in grave.
  • Unknown - skull too badly damaged
  • Unknown - bones only partially articulated due to disturbance after deposition in grave. Assumed flexed along right side of body
  • bones only partially articulated due to disturbance after deposition in grave. Assumed flexed along left side of body
  • straight - aligned E-W
  • not seen - disturbed after deposition within grave
  • unknown
  • several bones broken prior to excavation, especially skull which is very fragmented. Bones appear to have moved significantly since deposition and most are not in the anatomically correct positions
  • fairly well preserved but some elements of skeleton highly fragmented or missing
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Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Human bone 24 14.1 Vertebrae. (Year 2022)
Human bone 33 4 Hands (includes fragments). (Year 2022)
Human bone 4 17.2 Pelvis. (Year 2022)
Human bone 16 7.4 Left arm (includes fragments). (Year 2022)
Human bone 1 2.6 Right arm. (Year 2022)
Human bone 5 27.1 Left leg. (Year 2022)
Human bone 3 30.8 Right leg. (Year 2022)
Human bone 30 22.1 Ribs. (Year 2022)
Human bone 260 64.4 (Year 2022)
Human bone 11 11.38 Jaw and teeth. (Year 2022)

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  • Yasi Zhou 21-9-2022
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