Koutsongila Deposit A1a [permalink]
Type
Deposit or Stratum
Description
Ash, burned nails, and cremated bone fill small elliptical drepression (1.73 m northeast-southwest × 1.15 m northwest-southeast) but spread onto open slope. Contents of pit are roughly delimited and partly contained by line of 25 cobbles along upper (west) edge. Calcined limestone chunks and ashy crust along bottom of pit. Four large fragments of a single amphora (KP156) were set upright over small patch of ash nearby.
Published as
Rife2022a, pp. 29-30, 136, fig. 3.3
Published as
Rife2022b, pp. 331-342, 387, figs. 7.78-7.83
Chronology comment
Third quarter 1st century C.E.
Explanation of deposition
Secondary deposit of pyre debris.
Soil matrix
Light yellowish to very pale brown (10YR 6/4, 7/3), very loose, very fine silt with dense admixture of ash and burned matter (bone, corroded nails). Lowest layer (D. 5 mm) is hard, flaky, grayish, ashy crust with numerous calcined limestone chunks and small pebbles embedded.
Stratigraphic associations
TRA0701-007/TRA0701-009
Linked to

Locus TRA0701-007

Locus TRA0701-009