Individual: GI

Sex: male ?

Age: 20-40 years

Burial Type: primary flexed right

Orientation of Burial: Orientation E-W

Description: Burial of 5 individuals, together with AL, AK, FO, GG. The multiple burial consisted of five articulated skeletons. The corpses were buried close together lying partly in each other’s arms. They were placed on their right sides with bent legs, their heads directed to the east, the face oriented to the NNW. The rightmost individual was a man (FO). Tightly in front of him lay a woman (GG) whose left arm was placed on the body of another female juvenile (AL) to her left. The next individual was a second man (AK), a third male skeleton (GI) was for the most part destroyed by later burials. GI: The skeleton was adorned with shells (Ancilla cf. farsiana), which were probably the remains of cloth decoration. Only a few fragments of the cranial vault and basicranium are present. The left humerus and fragments of ribs, vetrebrae, left shoulder and left innominate represent the post-cranial skeleton.

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