Chersonesos - Record View Page: CH06SR

Archival Resource Key: ark:/87610/t66h2r/sfi_cd/CH06SR_3725

Short Description Bead (2 fragments)
Description Object circular in plan pierced centrally by a 0.35 cm dia hole. In edge profile sides diverge from 0.45 cm at hole to central waist 0.9 cm dia then converge back to 0.45 cm. Object has fractured cleanly into 2 parts

Context: CH06SR_798
- The area in front of the apse, central part of the church between the apse and the tombs and between the tombs. 300x155 + 100x200 cm, 12-15 cm deep. A light-grey ashy brown soil. Includes tile, ceramics,human and animal bones, small quantity of charcoal. Several (7) articulated skeletons lay next to each other. Disarticulated remains included larger proportion of small bones, relatively few skulls and long bones; articulated skeletons were cut by the construction of the built tombs, while disarticulated remains could be seen in the same layer beneath the wall of the apse and beneath the altar support. Contained large, articulated fragments of stucco decoration, probably from an Early Byzantine church