Pit E

Context Title:	Pit E
Context Name (Publication):	Pit E
Context Name (Excavation):	Pit E
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 E was near PG/777 but whether southwest or northeast is not clear. It is likely to have fallen to the southwest as the plan map places it on the western side. It was approximately 3x3 meters and was "sunk against the face of the wall of the second pre-cemetery series of buildings" (UE4 p.56). It reached a depth of about 2 meters above sea level. No artifacts are reported 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)