Digital Object 2338
Description:
UE324. Colamation fill caused by the temporary abandonment of the lower part of pit UE277, in tomb T7. It served as a foundation for burial pit UE325. It is a massive deposit made up of dark grey argillaceous earth mixed with dispersed blocks of brown sediment. It is a compact fill, fine-grained, with a plastic and unctuous texture. It differs very clearly from all the units with which it maintains direct physical contact, making its stratigraphic fidelity very high. It occupied the entire surface of the interior of pit 277, adhering to the walls of the pit along its entire perimeter. It could have been formed from surrounding materials washed down by natural erosion-sedimentation dynamics during the abandonment phase of the work. This would explain the random presence of brown sediment blocks differentiated from the dominant grayish matrix. However, the remarkable homogeneity of its section suggests that it was formed in a short period of time, and from materials that came from the same source. Its original surface described a very gentle descent towards the south-east, but most of it disappeared after the resumption of the tomb construction work, when the stratum in question was cut by the new burial pit (UE325). Above UE327. Below UE299 and UE326. Fills UE277. Cut by UE325.
Date of field recording:
03/12/2015
Excavation campaign:
2015
Record type:
Stratigraphic unit register
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Archaeological site:
El Caño
Operation:
Operation 1
Stratigraphic group:
Tomb 7
Stratigraphic unit type:
Fill
Stratigraphic unit (characteristics):
324
Digital Object 2338