Digital Object 2341
Description:
UE327. Colmatation sediment as a result of abandonment, located at the bottom of pit UE277, in tomb T7. It rested on the bed of the main pit (UE277). It was composed of yellowish clayey soil with reddish hues, with a compact, plastic, medium grain texture. It was also dotted with a multitude of small black spots of iron oxide of geological origin. It has provided very few archaeological remains: some scattered ceramic fragments, three small gold beads, seven fragments of human bone, one perforated human tooth, one shark tooth, and nine perforated dog teeth. Its surface, appreciably horizontal and uniform and partly colonised by capillaries of vegetation, was identifiable with notable clarity during the archaeological excavation process, which is why it is considered a sealed stratum of very high stratigraphic integrity. It was between 0.06 and 0.09m thick. It could have been formed from surrounding materials washed away by natural erosion-sedimentation dynamics during the abandonment phase of the work, or as a consequence of the continuous transit of the workers who participated in the construction work of the pit itself, who perhaps worked in a humid environment, prone to mud formation. Above UE278. Below UE324. Fill to UE277.
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):
327
Digital Object 2341