Pit B

Context Title:	Pit B
Context Name (Publication):	Pit B
Context Name (Excavation):	Pit B
Context Description:	Beginning in season 7, Woolley excavated a series of pits within the Royal Cemetery. He had already cut this area down about 10 meters from the surface, so it was an ideal location to go deeper to investigate the earliest occupation of the site. The only map of the location of these pits that Woolley published is found in Ur Excavations volume 4 in 1955, but it is demonstrably unreliable. Combining information from the field notes, the UE4 plan, and the UE4 stratigraphic profile helps to get closer to the actual sizes and locations, but most of these cannot be taken as exact. Pit B was located in the annex to PG/1237, the Great Death Pit. This 'annex' was immediately to the northeast of the pit and is only shown on early maps (Antiquaries Journal for 1929). Woolley believed it was the site of a completely destroyed chamber for the primary burial associated with the death pit. He states that Pit B was not much more than a meter square, but the stratigraphic profile shows it at 2 meters across. It began from the level of PG/1237 and continued down about another 6 meters to around 1 meter above sea level. No artifacts are recorded as having been collected from this pit.

Media	Media Title	Title	Label	Author	Omeka Label
	Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods	Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods	1955	Woolley, L.	(none)