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N 7525
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A. Skull missing and arms completely overturned and displaced. Body otherwise intact. With
arm bones of A were the right tibia and femur of B, and under a preserved fragment of
upper matting, which was out of place, was the left tibia (2) of the child. The feet of the child (3)
were in position, with heels on left knee of A and toes against west wall of grave. Both these feet
were between the two mattings and hidden by upper matting. No other bones of B were found.
A was about 30. (E. S.) At head and under rump of A was a mass of coarse cloth. Mixed up
with it at the head was a lot of cord (0.4 cm. in diameter) of two strands twisted together. This
occurrence of cord with cloth near the head was found also in N 7454 and may have been to
fasten the garment together at neck, or simply for ornament.
Note: No description of either upper or under matting. Ed.
[Enormously massive hbulae. Right femur 446-439. No head. Also some bones of a child
of 13 years. E. S.]
N 7525. Map F-6. Figures 151 c-g; 152 a-c.
GRAVE: 100X 150-100 cm. Figure 151 c.
BURIALS: A. Intrusive: adult female on left side, plundered.
B-F. Original: bones of five children, heavily plundered. (See notes.)
G. Intrusive: adult female(?) on left side, heavily plundered. A and G Figure 151 f; A-F
Figiire 151 g.
GRAVE GOODS: In situ, see Figure 151 c,f.
2. Pol.RW. jar. H. 21.0, D. 14.0 cm. Figure 151 d 3.
In filling:
i. Near head of A, see Figure 152 a: rough BrW. jar. H. 22.0, D. 13.0 cm. Figure 151 d 2.
iii. Rough BrW. dish. H. 5.5, D. 14.0 cm. Figure 151 d 1.
iv. Two dark blue stone beads, one cylindrical, the other hexagonal lozenge. Not measured.
Figure 151 e.
v. Part of a cow’s horn. Not measured. Not illustrated. UCLMA 6-4033 (beads).
At both eastern and western ends, bodies A and G were later intrusive burials. A was a woman of
advanced age with breast bones joined up. Skull missing. Under matting of Type II, lengthwise.
Of G only two halves of the pelvis, sacrum and the lower half of one leg remained. The under
matting was of Type I, lengthwise. Neither were contemporary with the other burials, for under
the greater part of A the twig framework, which was both over and under the other burials, had
been ripped out and separate under mattings put in for both of these later burials. In the case of
A, a small child B had originally occupied this end of the grave and its bones had been simply
scooped over on top of another child C. The left knee of A lay upon ribs and shoulder of C.
The original burials must all have been contemporary since they all lay on this twig framework
and were covered by another one. They were five children, B, C, D, E and F, all plundered, most
of them having hardly a bone left in position, and they were all nearly of one age, between 3 and
5 years. B was perhaps 3 and its bones were mixed up with those of C. In the mass were nearly
the complete skeletons, including brown hair about 2.5 cm. long. Of C only the upper ribs and
vertebrae were in position under the knee of A, its age was about 5. D was scattered with noth-
ing left in position and had been at most 3 years old. E was an older child of about 5. Its trunk
was in position but the arms and legs were scattered. F was only 2 to 3 years old with vertebral
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A. Skull missing and arms completely overturned and displaced. Body otherwise intact. With
arm bones of A were the right tibia and femur of B, and under a preserved fragment of
upper matting, which was out of place, was the left tibia (2) of the child. The feet of the child (3)
were in position, with heels on left knee of A and toes against west wall of grave. Both these feet
were between the two mattings and hidden by upper matting. No other bones of B were found.
A was about 30. (E. S.) At head and under rump of A was a mass of coarse cloth. Mixed up
with it at the head was a lot of cord (0.4 cm. in diameter) of two strands twisted together. This
occurrence of cord with cloth near the head was found also in N 7454 and may have been to
fasten the garment together at neck, or simply for ornament.
Note: No description of either upper or under matting. Ed.
[Enormously massive hbulae. Right femur 446-439. No head. Also some bones of a child
of 13 years. E. S.]
N 7525. Map F-6. Figures 151 c-g; 152 a-c.
GRAVE: 100X 150-100 cm. Figure 151 c.
BURIALS: A. Intrusive: adult female on left side, plundered.
B-F. Original: bones of five children, heavily plundered. (See notes.)
G. Intrusive: adult female(?) on left side, heavily plundered. A and G Figure 151 f; A-F
Figiire 151 g.
GRAVE GOODS: In situ, see Figure 151 c,f.
2. Pol.RW. jar. H. 21.0, D. 14.0 cm. Figure 151 d 3.
In filling:
i. Near head of A, see Figure 152 a: rough BrW. jar. H. 22.0, D. 13.0 cm. Figure 151 d 2.
iii. Rough BrW. dish. H. 5.5, D. 14.0 cm. Figure 151 d 1.
iv. Two dark blue stone beads, one cylindrical, the other hexagonal lozenge. Not measured.
Figure 151 e.
v. Part of a cow’s horn. Not measured. Not illustrated. UCLMA 6-4033 (beads).
At both eastern and western ends, bodies A and G were later intrusive burials. A was a woman of
advanced age with breast bones joined up. Skull missing. Under matting of Type II, lengthwise.
Of G only two halves of the pelvis, sacrum and the lower half of one leg remained. The under
matting was of Type I, lengthwise. Neither were contemporary with the other burials, for under
the greater part of A the twig framework, which was both over and under the other burials, had
been ripped out and separate under mattings put in for both of these later burials. In the case of
A, a small child B had originally occupied this end of the grave and its bones had been simply
scooped over on top of another child C. The left knee of A lay upon ribs and shoulder of C.
The original burials must all have been contemporary since they all lay on this twig framework
and were covered by another one. They were five children, B, C, D, E and F, all plundered, most
of them having hardly a bone left in position, and they were all nearly of one age, between 3 and
5 years. B was perhaps 3 and its bones were mixed up with those of C. In the mass were nearly
the complete skeletons, including brown hair about 2.5 cm. long. Of C only the upper ribs and
vertebrae were in position under the knee of A, its age was about 5. D was scattered with noth-
ing left in position and had been at most 3 years old. E was an older child of about 5. Its trunk
was in position but the arms and legs were scattered. F was only 2 to 3 years old with vertebral