Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 6481

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 6481
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Well
Title:		Fill in Well
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1103
		1104
Context:		6481
Page:		0
Date:		2009/05/28
		2010/04/09
Lot:		Lot 2010-25
Stratum:		10% inclusions: tile, bone, pottery, roots, stones (medium pebbles-cobbles; angular-subrounded; spherical-tabular)
Description:		The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:		N.B. Context number 6581 was skipped in 2009. For consistency it is being used during the 2010 season. Context 6481 appears to be the lowest fill in a well located at the southern end of the room west of the courtyard of the Byzantine house. The soil became redder compared to context 5943 and the decision was made to change contexts. Shortly after beginning this context it appeared that we reached the bottom in sterile bedrock. The suggests that when the well was dug in the Frankish period the excavators gave up before reaching the water table. This may be because they appear to have come down on a sidewalk for an E-W Roman road and/or the soil and bedrock was too difficult to excavate. The removal of context 6481 (and 5943 before it) revealed cuts on both the east and west side of the well for what may be a robbing trench (possibly for the Roman road).
Context Pottery:		Coarseware. niederbieber 77, amphora. 1 handle.
		Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), unidentified. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. ww incised (700-1120), plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Byzantine, pitcher. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. premedieval3 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. Byzantine, pedestal dish. 3 rims. 1 complete profile. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		26 frag(s) 2.5 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		6 frag(s) 0.05 kg. (50% saved) fineware.
		75 frag(s) 1.27 kg. (9% saved) coarseware.
		18 frag(s) 1.4 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		bone worked needle shaft 1?; bronze nail 1 complete; shell murex 2; Bone- complete scapula of Aves, sm (Bird - Small) - 1 example(s).; Bone- complete tarsal, astragalus of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- complete tibiofibula of Aves, sm (Bird - Small) - 2 example(s).; Bone- of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 12 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Aves, sm (Bird - Small) - 1 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 4 example(s).; Bone- distal humerus of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- distal radioulna of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- humerus of Mammalia, sm (Mammal - Small) - 1 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Aves, md (Bird - Medium) - 15 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 8 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, sm (Mammal - Small) - 4 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 1 example(s).; Bone- sternum of Aves, lg (Bird - Large) - 1 example(s).; Bone- sternum of Aves, sm (Bird - Small) - 2 example(s).; Bone- tarsal of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 3 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Aves, sm (Bird - Small) - 7 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Aves, sm (Bird - Small) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 4 example(s).
		Iron, lump 1, tube 1, Iron, strip doubled over with round hole at end, complete 1 (L. 0.07m); glass, blue, rim 1; lamp, shoulder 1; bone, sheep/goat, phalang 1, unidentified 1; plaster, red 1; bronze, lump 1, pin 1
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		First half of 13th century
Grid:		264.41-261.18E, 1032.16-1034.76N
XMin:		261.18
XMax:		264.41
YMin:		1032.16
YMax:		1034.76
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		82.88-83.11m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2010 by Scott Gallimore (2010-04-07 to 2010-04-23) Object: MF 2010 9 Coin: 2010 10 Coin: 2010 11 Lot: LOT 2010 25