| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5934 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Surface | |
| Title: | Pebble Floor | |
| Category: | Cut | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 5934 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/04/01 | |
| Stratum: | 25% fine and medium rounded pebbles | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is well sorted. It is silt. Structure materials: Rounded medium pebbles and cement. Material size: Small and medium rounded pebbles (ca 1cm in diam.). Material bonding: Cement. | |
| Notes: | Excavation of 5928 and 5929, both apparently leveling patches placed on 5934 in order to fill in depressions on the floor surface, revealed the surface of 5934, a pebble cement floor of good construction. The floor had been visible in section from the baulk left below wall 10080. Both of the rooms to the E and W had already been excavated below the levl of the floor in the 1960s excavations, so the preserved extent of the floor was probably greater before. To the south the floor does not reach 5919, the threshold for the entry to a room to the south, and the floor appears at this time to be cut by the foundation trench for that feature. The floor therefore predates the threshold 5919. To the north is 5938, a drain extending from the northern limit of the pebble floor towards the east. It is unclear whether the drain cuts the pebble floor or is contemporary with it. The floor does not appear to reach the drain, suggesting that the drain was constructed later or that this part has been disturbed by previous excavations. To the east, a large pit excavated in the 1960s cuts the pebble floor and the fills and surfaces above it. Cleaning of the pit on 1/4/09 revealed that its true limits had not been identified at the time of its original excavation. The line of the cut for the pit extends further to the north, west, south and east, showing, among other things, that the pit cut the surfaces below wall 10080, including the pebble cement floor. After cleaning the pit and removing the remaining fill overlooked in the 1960s excavations, we decided to remove the pebble floor and then the stone lined drain (5938). Excavation of the floor makeup revealed that it contained a large amount of body sherds. After removing the drain and pebble floor, we decided that the two features seemed contemporary, the drain probably constructed slightly earlier and the floor built up against it. | |
| Context Pottery: | Coarseware. amphora. 2 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. stewpot byzantine6 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. pitcher. 5 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. lid/veritcal rim basin1 rim. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 55 frag(s) 1 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | |
| 9 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron nail 1; marble revetement; glass: clear, yellow, bs1 (saved to lot); worked bone - flat and polishe on one side 1; shell murex; Bone- innominate of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s). | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | third quarter of the 13th C | |
| Grid: | 278.51-277.4E, 1027.45-1028.94N | |
| XMin: | 277.4 | |
| XMax: | 278.51 | |
| YMin: | 1027.45 | |
| YMax: | 1028.94 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.53-85.7m. |
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