Pit C

Context Title:	Pit C
Context Name (Publication):	Pit C
Context Name (Excavation):	Pit C
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 C is said to be in the southeast corner of the Royal Cemetery. The cemetery was expanded through the years, however, and the corner referenced in relation to this pit should be the corner as of its excavation in 1929. The stratigraphic positioning compared to the overall map of the Royal Cemetery allows us to place Pit C with relative confidence, but its horizontal extent is not known as only its northwestern edge appears on the stratigraphic profile. It is likely that this was a 2x2 meter square, as were so many of the others dug this season in this area. Pit C reached a depth of 1.5 meters above sea level. No artifacts are recorded as having been collected from it.

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