Site 1, Unit 2: Layer 3:2



Site 1

Group 2

Unit 2

Layer 3:2

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Four features were uncovered in 3:2. Feature 1 comprised a group of limestone and sandstone chips located in soil of a slightly different colour, first uncovered in 3:1 near the centre of the unit. Feature 2 was a limestone block uncovered in the northeast corner of the unit. Around the block the soil was of a slightly different colour as well. Feature 3 was located along the east wall of the unit and comprised a clay circle adjacent to Feature 1. Feature 4 was an area of soil in the southeast corner of the unit that had a slightly different soil colour. Each of these features was excavated separately. Ceramics, charcoal (cat. 114) and stone fragments in the area of Feature 1. In the same area the top of a human skull was exposed. The skull was located under an unusual limestone block with a perforation in it. The face of the skull appeared to face the perforation in the limestone block. This feature, as it contained human remains, was renamed Burial 5. There was other limestone present in the feature as well. Atop the triangular limestone slab were found another block of limestone and a block of sandstone. Further to the southeast another limestone block was found.


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