| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | South Stoa, context 287 | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context Type: | deposit | |
| Title: | Removal of pebbly matrix in western half of room | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1110 | |
| Context: | 287 | |
| Date: | 2016/04/06 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2016-010 | |
| Stratum: | 40% inclusions, mostly small stones | |
| Description: | The soil color is light brownish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey sand. | |
| Notes: | 6/4/2016 We open the context, which appears on the surface to cover most of the unexcavated portion of the western half of the rooms. The matrix is full of small stones of varying sizes ranging from gravel to a few measuring c.10 cm. The soil is quite loose. This context overlays the more consolidated soil visible in the NE corner of the room (320). This context contains a higher concentration of pottery and also a small amount of pebbly modern material (glass bottle fragments). The consolidated material below is possibly a floor surface and we therefore begin to sieve all material. There is also a small amount of bone in the matrix. This deposit continutes to overlie the consolidated soil (320 and 346) as we move south across the room. In the northwest corner of the room this consolidate material either dives or disappears. For the moment, we do not excavate this area in favor of following this potential surface across the rest of the room. Moving south, there is a higher concentration of modern material (glass, can frags, button). There are also a higher number of small roots running through this area of the room. Near the south wall, 287 overlays both the black and the red soil deposits exposed during the excavation of context 284. The black deposit (297, 298) slopes upwards towards the east and south and continutes across the room. Deposit 287 ends on the eastern side of the room at the westernmost small scarp line is. In the northwest corner of the room, the deposit is quite shallow (c.5cm) and covers a different matrix than in the rest of the room--rocky and reddish. This new matrix (310) cuts into the consolidated surface (320) uncovered further east and in turn is cut into by the black soil in the area excavated as 284. Based on the finds and matrix, context 287 is more or less the same as 284--modern material + baza over the ancient material. Coin 2016-6, from sieve | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. porcelain silver pattern1 rim. 3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. plain glazed, factory made plate; Fineware. Rhodian, plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. early modern stamnos interior glazed, stamnos. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. medieval2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Prehistoric20 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Roman4 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Pre-Roman12 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Pre-Classical2 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 28 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (4% saved) fineware. | |
| 200 frag(s) 2 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 40 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass modern colorless bs 47, rim 1 (saved to lot); glass modern pink bs 1 (saved to lot); grey chert worked 1 (saved to lot); iron frags 4 (saved to lot); metal modern wire 4 (saved to lot); portland cement 3 (saved to lot); metal modern can 4 (saved to lot); marble white floor tile 1 (saved to lot); glass modern green bs 11 (saved to lot); metal modern bottle cap 1 (saved to lot); plastic modern comb with no teeth (saved to lot); glass colorless modern bs 15 (saved to lot); glass modern green bottle bs 5 (saved to lot); bullet modern 1 (saved to lot); metal modern unidentied 11 (saved to lot); chert honey colored blade 1 (saved to lot); glass prunted beaker bs 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Modern Greek | |
| Chronology: | 2nd half of the 20th century | |
| Grid: | 353.35-350.411E, 1086.673-1091.5N | |
| XMin: | 350.411 | |
| XMax: | 353.35 | |
| YMin: | 1086.673 | |
| YMax: | 1091.5 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 81.45-81.578m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2016 0075 Image: digital 2016 0086 Object: MF 2016 16 Coin: 2016 6 |
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