Types of contact among features
5. To cap or to sit in

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Introduction

The type of contact “to cap or to sit in” is the most numerous and represents about 44% 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. Here there were numerous displaced boulders which sat in accumulations.

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Caps

There were three insances where capping was recorded. All involved added excavation of a pit previously excavated. The bottom of the original pit cut was said to cap the material excavated below it. Here, pit cut f128 capped the material below f260.

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Sits in

Two hundred-sixty 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 f14, ... were covered by accumulation f13.