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Digital Object 2391
Description:
UE376. Post hole located on the NE flank of pit (stratigraphic unit UE277), to the SE of stratigraphic unit UE374 and to the NW of stratigraphic unit UE378. It was used to house post stratigraphic units UE285 and UE286. This is one of the 27 post holes made at the bottom of pit UE277 at the time of the initial construction of tomb T7. These holes are lined up next to the base of the walls of the lower part of the tomb, and are distributed around the entire inner perimeter of the tomb at approximately regular intervals. It is completely excavated in the geological substratum of the area. It is circular in shape, slightly oval, and has a flat bottom and slightly sloping walls, resulting in a development in height of an inverted truncated cone form. Its fill (stratigraphic unit UE377) is clearly different from the sediment that covered it (stratigraphic unit UE327), and is accompanied by a characteristic reddish stain in the shape of a circular corona that has been interpreted as the residue left by the in situ decomposition of post that corresponds to stratigraphic units UE285 and UE286. This same feature occurs in the fill of 13 post holes in tomb T7 (Holes UE Nos. 346, 348, 350, 352, 354, 356, 358, 360, 362, 372, 374, 376 and 378). It seems clear, therefore, that these 13 holes fulfilled the function for which they were created, and housed the same number of posts in the perimeter ring that reinforced the walls of the lower part of burial pit (stratigraphic unit UE277). It cuts stratigraphic units UE277 and UE278. Below stratigraphic unit UE327. Filled by stratigraphic unit UE377.
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:
 
cut
Stratigraphic unit (characteristics):
 
376
Calibrated Age Range:
 
Cal AD 770 to 905 (Cal BP 1180 to 1045)/Cal AD 920 to 965 (Cal BP 1030 to 985)
Digital Object 2391
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