Interpretation
-
- burial of an infant in simple earthen grave
-
- Cori Fenwick
- 4-7-2007
Site Photo
Description
- skeleton west of wall 2081 and north of wall 2103
- small tools
- fossa terragna, singola
- cover is fill
- W-E
- poor
- poor
- Poorly conserved, partially articulated skeleton of an infant north of wall 2103 and covering grave of HRU 2251*. Iron found on cranium. Skeleton distured by later activity, accounting for fragmentary preservation of skeleton. Not possible to establish position of limbs.
- missing lower limbs and lower arms
- medium
- length of bones
Position
- original
- disarticulated
- absent
- disarticulated
- absent
- absent
- extended
Articulation
Decomposition and Compression
- no
- no
- yes
- no
- missing lower limbs, except right femur, and left pelvis bone.
- pressione periferica del sedimento (in piena terra)
