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Summary of the Cuts
Cut 1: 0-10 cm.
Tile: 1/4 cassetta
Pottery: none
Soil: topsoil
Finds: none
General: none
Cut 2: 35-45 cm
Tile: 6 cassetti (plus)
Pottery: 4 boxes (plus)
Soil: In general, meters V-W/62-64 soil was loose, reddish-brown in color with a light plaster content and included carbon material, glass slag, large unburned plaster and terracotta fragments. To the west, the soil is brown with little carbon, plaster or other extensive materials present. By meters T-U/62-64 the soil is uniformly brown, fairly loose with scattered small stones and roots. The northern meters exhibit increasing roots and carbon material including some large pieces.
Finds:
Ridgepole fragments (approximately 3)
Terracotta statue fragment
Bronze sheet fragments (approximately 3)
Terracotta fragments (approximately 3)
Waterspout strut fragment
Vocchetto head
Alabastron neck fragment
General: Finds, pottery and tile are more concentrated to the east: particularly in the southern meters. Despite the increasing of carbonification to the north, little of the pottery, tile, or terracotta is so damaged.
Cut 3: 70-80 cm
Tile: 7 cassette (plus)
Pottery: 5 boxes (plus)
Soil: Dark red loose soil with a high plaster content dominates the eastern metres particularly to the south. This soil and plaster thins to the west until in U/62 it becomes a loose yellow clay with negligible pottery, plaster, tile or stone. A dark burn layer is present in the red soil to the east until T/63-64.
Finds:
Rabbit head fragments (approximately 6)
Lateral sima ends (approximately 5)
Vitrified cover tile
Terracotta fragments (approximately 10)
Rabbit head top
Heavy vessel fragment: rope pattern
Ridgepole tile with scar
Vitrified reidgepole fragment
Deformed pan tile (approximately 2)
Antefix half
Vitrified terracotta objects (approximately 2)
Painted fineware sherd
Cover tile with mark
Carbonized material
Elaborate pithos handle
Akroteria fragment
Heavy base
Bronze fragments (approximately 3)
Bronze fibula pin
Alabastron rim
Ridgepole tile
Complete rabbit head
Incised bucchero (approximately 4)
Ionic ware sherd
General: Concentrations of finds, pottery, tile and plaster remained heaviest in eastern and southern meters over supposed floor area. In this level unburned, partially burned and vitrified materials are found together.
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Document Type | Trench Book Entry |
Trench Book Entry Date | 1982-07-31 |
Entry Year | 1982 |
Start Page | 98 |
End Page | 103 |
Title | Summary of the Cuts |
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Is Part Of
Vocabulary: DCMI Metadata Terms (Dublin Core Terms) |
GD II
Vocabulary: Murlo |
Suggested Citation
Gary Dunham. (2017) "GD II (1982-07-31):98-103; Summary of the Cuts from Europe/Italy/Poggio Civitate/Tesoro/Tesoro 26/1982, ID:112/PC 19820088". In Murlo. Anthony Tuck (Ed). Released: 2017-10-04. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/9db352cc-5757-4417-a8a9-f420620dffe2> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2t15931v
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