This is the SE quarter of the kurgan mound.
Material densities are very low, as expected. We also saw some of the decaying chalk stone that we saw in the SW quadrant. The matrix is this quadrant is the same as Locus 2, a medium brown silty clay loam. As more of the capstone for the interment became visible in the SE quadrant, it became clear that it was also covered with a thick layer of white clay on this side as well. It is not clear yet whether this will be visible in the section. The clay extends out from the rocks on top of the captstone approx. 40 cm, about where the edge of the capstone seems to be.
As we were coming down in the SE quadrant (Locus 3), the shovels hit an innominate from a large animal (likely cow or horse). Half of it was dislodged by the shovels, but the other half we pedastaled in situ and photographed. It was located 2.65m from the E wall of the trench and 5.5 m N of the SE corner of the trench at a depth of 2212.283 masl. The innominate was bagged in Bag 2.
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