Kenan Tepe

Area F

Trench 22

Andy Creekmore

Tuesday June 14 2005

NOTE: THERE IS A SECOND, ‘B’ DAY PLAN FOR THIS DAY, CONTAINING A SKETCH OF THE BURIAL L6.

Today I reopened F22 where Marco left off a few weeks ago. I cleaned the trench, cut the north section and worked on a burial, L6, found lodged in the north section (the south section of old trench F1). I attempted to articulate the partially exposed bones and define the area of the pit. The pit seems to stretch for several meters along the F22 north baulk. I removed several bones from two concentrations, one to the west and another to the east. It appears to be the remains of two people that have been disturbed. Several leg bones appear about 50cm east of a concentration of upper body bones and a maxilla. A bronze (?) pin was found near the leg bones but is likely dislocated from its original position, which must have been near the shoulders of the original burial. During its recovery we bent the tip of the pin (L6, KT1). It has a ball head, is pierced below the head, and has a considerable weight. Many more bones remain in the ground to be extracted in coming days.

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