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Interpretation

- Interpretation Grave fill for HRU 4181*
- Interpreted by
  - Frances Parton
- Interpreted on 28-7-2008

Stratigraphic Relationships

- VM_4154
  Covers
- VM_4181
  Covers
- VM_4194
  Covers
- VM_4195
  Cuts
- Edit
- VM_4182
- Covers
  VM_4181
- Fills
  VM_4183
- Edit

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Description

Criteria of Distinctioncompaction, composition
Excavation Techniquetrowel
DimensionsN-S: 0.91; E-W: 0.97; depth 0.17
Compositioncoarse, pebbley earth
Colourdark brown
Compactionloose
State of Conservationgood
Formationartificial
Geological Componentspebbles
Organic Componentsloose bones
Artificial Componentsfragments of ceramic
Descriptionsticky fill of 4183 that covers 4181
ObservationsMuch reduced through cutting by other graves. They seem to put the bodies on fragments of tile and marble.
Chronological Elements
Palaeobotanical elements
Period
Phase
Stratigraphic Reliability

Ceramic Inventory

Spot-dating NotesImpossibile determinare

	Total fragments
Medieval- Red Painted	1
Medieval- Coarse Ware	3

Basic Information

Definitiongrave fill of HRU 4181*

Tomb

Tomb VM_T365
- burial

Record Details

Director
- Lisa Fentress
Supervisor
- Caroline Goodson
Date of Excavation 28-7-2008
Issued to Cori Fenwick
Issued on 22-7-2008

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Fentress, E., Goodson, C., Maiuro, M., Andrews, M., Dufton, J.A. (eds.) 2016. Villa Magna: an Imperial Estate and its Legacies. Excavations 2006–2010. British School at Rome, Rome.

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