Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 671

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 671
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		mixed fill in corridor
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1109
Context:		671
Date:		2015/05/05
Stratum:		inclusions: 15% pottery, bone, pebbles, tile, brick, cobbles
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. The soil color is brownish grey. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		After excavating the soft fill of context 669, we decided to make a small pass removing a mixed fill layer (671) which seems to run the entire length of the corridor and which we have been turning up underneath the previous contexts (669, 662, and 658). The hope was to more clearly distinguish the differences between various surfaces which appear different to the workmen in the NW corner. There seems to be more tile than usual in this context. We go back and forth on the possible linear feature. We believe it may be a wall. We have found what looks like mortar in the middle of the possible wall. Its width as estimated by the workmen, seems correct for a wall. We are finding more substantial stones in line below. Similar to earlier contexts, we are finding more rocks, tile, and some mortar in the NW corner. Removing this layer (671) in the center of the corridor is revealing a softer reddish-orange soil underneath. The reddish soil is not turning up in the NW corner though. The NW corner has more rocks and tiles and darker soil. The workmen have already started digging the rocky layer in the NW corner, thinking it belonged to 671. We have not finished taking out 671 from the eastern half of the corridor. It looks like the rocky layer in the NW corner may be partially overlaid on the reddish layer. END 2015/05/05 2015/05/06 We started the morning by removing the rest of 671 in the eastern half of the trench. We have taken out the rocks which were floating just north of Grave 2014-11. In the eastern half of the trench we are turning up something different than the reddish layer underneath 671. It extends towards the middle of the trench from the south, but not all the way to the northern edge. These extra layers of fill at the east and west edges make sense with Wes' hypothesis that the filling operations are occurring from those ends of the corridor and the material diffused towards the center. After removing this last pass of 671 we will try to figure out the relationship between the reddish layer and the rocky layer in the NW. The boundary is clear, but not which one is on top. We are reaching the bottom of Grave 2014-11. Robbing Trench NB 835, B. 22 is also gone. 3/06/2015 (L. Kennedy, R. Valente) Animal bones: sheep/goat, horse, bovid, rodent, all thrown expect the rodent (useful fro chemical analysis), 1.21 kg (total), saved: 0.001 kg as bone lot 2015-13.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. champs, bowl. 5 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Frankish Incised, bowl. 5 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. matte painted, pitcher. 3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)1 rim. 12th or early 13th (Valente); Fineware. red figure1 bodysherd. showing athlete right leg; Fineware. other glazed48 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:		107 frag(s) 0.45 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		986 frag(s) 6.76 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		102 frag(s) 0.67 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		iron nail head 1; glass clear colorless BS 3; glass clear colorless greenish BS 3; glass clear colorless rim with blue lip as MF 5650; iron nail with round shank 1; iron fragment 1; iron sheet 1; Iron nail with square shank 4
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		mid 13th
Grid:		129.5-121.5E, 1075.9-1078.5N
XMin:		121.5
XMax:		129.5
YMin:		1075.9
YMax:		1078.5
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.536m.