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Interpretation
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- Shroud burial of adult, probably in built tomb cut into [3816], cut by later graves
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- Erica Nitsch
- 20-7-2009
Site Photo
Description
- lower legs of adult cut into wall 3816 and south of 3606 - probably in built tomb
- small tools
- built tomb
- shroud
- W-E
- partial
- good
- lower legs of adult on W-E orientation with feet, right tibia and fibula and left fibula
- preserved bones are complete, not cut
- good
- size of limbs, fusion of epiphyses
- later graves
Position
- absent
- absent
- absent
- absent
- absent
- extended
- absent
- left foot lies over right foot, with the toes collapsed slightly, suggesting a shroud burial
Articulation
Decomposition and Compression
- not present
- not present
- not present
- not present
- none
- not present
- not present
- not present
- not present
- everything above knees lost due to insertion of later graves
- none
