Emplacement for unit J5
Types of contact among features
5. To cap or to sit in

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Introdution

The type of contact “to cap or to sit in” represents about 12% of the total contacts.

This family of contacts often is asssociated with small items in domestic environments. A lid may cap a jar or an abandoned pot may sit in a floor accumulation.

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Caps

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Sits in

Forty-seven instances where one item sat in another were recorded. Most were stones that had been displaced from nearby structures and that had been subsequently covered by accumulation. The best example of "sits in" created in antiquity occurred when stones f269 were covered by accumulation f271.