Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 594

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 594
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Fill
Title:		Dumped fill on top of floor west of wall 306
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1103
Context:		594
Page:		0
Date:		2009/06/02
Stratum:		40% inclusions; roof tile, ceramic, bone, fine-coarse pebbles, cobbles.
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the E. The soil color is light pinkish brown. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		Deposit context 594 is a lens of dumped fill on top of the floor that is expected to run northward from wall 376 underneath the lens of collapsed roof tile. It is located west of wall 306 and lays against the west scarp of Nezi field at 265.5 E. It also continues into the scarp wall such that the deposit is sectioned in excavation. 594 is near pit cut 501. The matrix of fill seems similar to the matrix in which the tile destruction to the south is set into the heap of roof tile south of pit cut 501. The boundary between the context is diffuse, though the inclusions are very different. The removal of context 594 revealed a floor which is light pinkish/ yellowish red in color. The floor is beaten earth, and not obviously clay. There is a disturbance in the floor just east of the scarp that is a circular ring of stones with a projecting course of four cobbles in a southerly direction. It is possible that this disturbance is a feature such as a built pithos for storage.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. medallions, slipped style III (1170-1200), bowl. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. fine incised, slipped style IV (1170-1200), plate. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. glaze painted III, slipped (1160-1200)1 rim. ; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)1 rim. ; Fineware. premedieval3 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:		19 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		112 frag(s) 0.85 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		48 frag(s) 0.25 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass clear colorless bs 1, yellowish bs 1, bluish bs 1; bronze pierced strip 1, strip 1; iron lump 1, nail shaft 1; Bone- cranial of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 4 example(s).; Bone- indeterminate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 11 example(s).; Bone- indeterminate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 5 fragment(s). ; Bone- metacarpal of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- metapodial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of B. taurus (Cattle) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- phalanx of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- phalanx of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- phalanx of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- radioulna of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 5 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Aves, md (Bird - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- tibia of Oryctolagus cuniculus (Rabbit - Domestic) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- tooth of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- ulna of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae, cervical of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae, lumbar of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		late 13th early 14th
Grid:		257.4-255.5E, 1001.8-1005.35N
XMin:		255.5
XMax:		257.4
YMin:		1001.8
YMax:		1005.35
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		86.93-87.21m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Jody Cundy and Dina Boero (2009-06-19 to 2009-06-20)