Tharros

Cut of a pit

The cut c607 corresponds to the pit of the single burial F2. Cut into the layer c605, it is filled with c635 (a thin layer found under the skeletal resulted from the decomposition of the body and maybe possible organic material), the stones elements c637, the skeleton c623 and the burial fill (c619), as well as some elements of the stone cover (c614, c618, c626). In plan the cut has an oval shape of 1,35 m length and 1,20 width, oriented west-east, like the neaby burial F1. It is a shallow pit (0.27 m depth), with stepped sides on the western and eastern ends, more straight on the south-western and northern side. The uneven base of the cut is marked by a gentle slope to the north-east. Its irregularity is due to bioturbations (especially animal burrows), and the nature of the embedding layer (c605), interpreted as a fill containing mixed material (soil, CBP, pottery, limestone gravel inclusions).