Villa Magna

Interpretation

    • Infant burial, W-E orientation in N-S tomb, probably buried in empty space according to placement of small fragments and mandible. Disturbed likely by later burial of HRU 5383
      • Meg Andrews
    • 14-7-2009

Stratigraphic Relationships

Site Photo

Description

  • infant remains filling 5360 below *5394
  • smal tools
  • built tomb
  • tiles
  • W-E
  • poor
  • mediocre
  • infant in built tomb oriented W-E, supine, cranium broken and pushed towards feet, mandible on chest, missing arms and legs and right ribs
  • tomb cut is N-S, but child is W-E, lying between the juncture of three tiles
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  • infant
  • size
  • insertion of HRU 5383

Position

  • natural but fragmented, mandible on chest
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  • right ribs missing, no upper limbs, possibly one femur

Articulation

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Decomposition and Compression

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  • tomb wall

Isotope Analysis

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Basic Information

  • infant remains filling 5360 below *5394

Geophoto

Record Details

    • Lisa Fentress
    • Meg Andrews
  • 7-7-2009
  • Meg Andrews
  • 9-7-2009