inhumation, 29 Photos

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Skeleton (1723) Skull of (1723) Skull & vertebrae of (1723) Skeleton (1723) Skeleton (1723) Skeleton (1723) excavated by Ruth Flexed prone skeleton (1723) Skeleton (1733), excavated by Will & Tomasz Skeleton (1733) with votive Samian vase (1736) at feet Grave cut [1711] of Ruth's skeleton (1723) Disarticulated skeleton (1728), excavated by Adrian Skeleton (1728) (1719) geophoto Skeleton (1719) Adrian's grave cut (1727) Will & Tomasz excavating (1733) Adrian excavating skeleton (1728) Liz recording grave cut (1720) Ruth, Tomasz and Will recording Context (1720) [1271] being geophotographed [1271] a large pit with three skulls at the west end [1275] ready to be geophotographed Context [1275] a heavily truncated but well preserved inhumation Adrian working on [1275] Will Clarke, our newest member of staff Adrian working on [1275] Adrian working on [1275] Liz excavating skeleton (1006)

A mixture of photographs from 2 very busy days on site, with a good group of burials. Next week I’ll get Liz, Will, Tomasz, Ruth and Adrian to write a journal entry each (if I can persuade them), as they all dug particularly interesting burials.

Featuring context:

Context: 1711 Grave cut

Context: 1719 Liz’s skeleton

Context: 1720 Grave cut

Context: 1723 Ruth’s flexed, prone skeleton

Context: 1727 Grave cut

Context: 1728 Adrian’s disarticulated skeleton

Context: 1733 Will & Tomasz’s skeleton with votive Samian vessel

Context: 1736 Votive Samian ware vessel from (1733)