Pit D

Context Title:	Pit D
Context Name (Publication):	Pit D
Context Name (Excavation):	Pit D
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 D is said to be close to PG/1332, though the UE4 plan map places it 20 meters to the northeast of this grave. Combining all available information puts Pit D only about 3 meters from the eastern corner of PG1332 and shows it to be about 2.5 meters square. It reached a depth of about 4 meters 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)