Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 6663

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 6663
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Fill
Title:		fill within cut depression
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1103
Context:		6663
Page:		0
Date:		2009/06/13
Stratum:		15%; tile, ceramics, rectangular rounded and subrounded stone, pebbles
Description:		The soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		We are excavating this context to attempt to define the entirety of an east-west cut that has a clear northern edge, but no clear southern line. IN the previous context 6660, we did discover what we thought was the southern boundary of this cut. It is unclear at this point whether the fills that we are excavating here go together with the fill that we have been waiting to excavated along north-south wall 5284 to the west; their elevations are slightly different, although the line looks alright. Ultimately, the conclusion of this context was that two more soft fills were exposed- one near the wall 5483 with tiles, and one near the edge of bothros cut 6380, which appered sandy in consistency. A small test beneath the levels closest to the wall revealed bedrock beneath, which suggests, once more, that we are dealing with a series of dumped fills, falling against each other, against a scarp created by puncturing the stratum exposed by 6624 (i.e.., the unexcavated and unnumbered pink-colored surface). POST-EXCAVATION NOTE, 15-06-09, S.L.: Contexts 6663 and 6649, at least one of which underlies this context, were found to contain two joining coarse incised ware body fragments of the Frankish period, dating to the mid-13th century. These sherds will stratigraphically change the dates of every context that lies above them by as much as two centuries, of which this context is one. Until it is decided whether there is some other reason that this discrepancy might have occurred (e.g., these contexts need to be situated in a different place on the Harris Matrix), the dates will remain as they have been assigned on the basis of pottery/stratigraphy prior to discovering this discrepancy.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. coarse incised, slipped style V (1200-1220), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. sgraffito II, slipped painted (1200-1260)1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. premedieval10 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:		13 frag(s) 0.06 kg. (8% saved) fineware.
		82 frag(s) 0.98 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		31 frag(s) 0.17 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		first half of 13th
Grid:		270.32-269.12E, 1024.19-1025.55N
XMin:		269.12
XMax:		270.32
YMin:		1024.19
YMax:		1025.55
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		83.86-83.98m.
References:		Coin: 2009 199 Coin: 2009 205