Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 806

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 806
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Fill along East wall room 8
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1109
Context:		806
Date:		2015/06/02
Lot:		Lot 2015-004
Stratum:		40% tabular subrounded medium pebbles. Shards and animal bones also present, but not very abundant.
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the S. The soil color is dark yellowish black. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		8:00: Excavation was resumed in Room 8. This context was first defined in the last week of session 2 (21-05-2015), after the removal of contexts 786-796. A second review confirmed the limits defined first time. Excavation started in the north end of the context heading south, following the line of the wall. Previous works in room 9 (to the east) revealed a deep pit in the centre of the room. The wall that divides rooms 8 and 9 (struct 720) rests on the bottom of the pit, and we have the working hypothesis that the pit continued in room 8 and the construction of the wall divided it. This context could be part of the top fill of this pit, but at this point the stratigraphic relationship must be established yet and the works will not be driven by the assumption that we are excavating the W end of the pit. 8:30: Kostas started to trowel some soil deposited on top of the wall, that now is on the same elevation that the context, although is not part of it. I decided to stop this cleaning barely seconds after it started and I checked carefully for any shard, bone or artefact contamination. Nothing was found and the remaining soil was discarded without going through the sieve. 8:35: A series of what seems to be iron nail heads of c. 8 cm were found in the context by the wall, but as part of the soil and not necessarily joined to it. 9:07: The excavatiom of context 806 is now below the preserved courses of wall 720. The east side of the context was in touch with the cut formed by the robbing trench of the wall, but now is in contact with the west face of the wall. Elevation of this contact point is 84.61 m. Once excavated started to get deeper than this point the abundance of materials recovered significantly increased. The characteristics of the soil indicate we are excavating the same deposit, and a new context would be artificial and redundant. But this increase in materials must be acknowledge in order to address the formation of the deposit properly. 10:00: It is decided to close the context after a slight change in the consistency of the soil and the location of structure 811. There seems to be a relationship between this change of consistency and the foundation trench of structure 720. P.S. 15:15: This loose soil ended up being context 815. 24/06/2015 Larkin Kennedy, Rossana Valente All animal bones kept in lot 2015-04 (3.65 kg)
Context Pottery:		Fineware. late painted sgrafitto, plate. 3 rims. (saved to lot) .overglaze; Cooking ware. vertical folded3 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. frankish incised, bowl. 2 rims. 6 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. preroman14 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Roman10 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), pitcher. 6 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Plainware. bowl. 4 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matt painted, stamnos. 1 rim. 6 handles. 54 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. earlier 13th century3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 4 rims. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late painted sgrafitto1 rim. 7 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .no overglaze; Fineware. 12th century5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		146 frag(s) 0.95 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		306 frag(s) 5 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
		901 frag(s) 1.7 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		iron buckle 0.050 x 0.44 x 0.16 (saved to lot); painted stucco red 2 (saved to lot); Prunted beaker glass transparent blue bs 1 (saved to lot); glass lamp clear transparent blue decoration bs 2. Similar to MF-1991-16 (saved to lot); iron nail round shaft 4 (saved to lot); iron nail round shaft 1 H. 0.056 (saved to lot); iron nail square shaft 1 H. 0.047 (saved to lot); charcoal 4 (saved to lot); iron nail square shaft 5 (saved to lot); Cubic bone die (inv. MF-2015-57) (saved to lot); iron ring 0.014 (saved to lot); glass clear blue rim 1 (saved to lot); bronze lump 2 (saved to lot); glass clear transparent rim 2 bs 5 (saved to lot); iron nail square shaft 1 H. 0.077 (saved to lot); iron lump 22 (saved to lot); glass clear brown bs 3 (saved to lot); glass prunted beaker transparent rim 1. Similar to MF-2009-29 (saved to lot); stone tessera black 1 (saved to lot); glass clear blue bs 1 (saved to lot)
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		4th quarter 13th century
Grid:		127.5-126.5E, 1080.8-1083.9N
XMin:		126.5
XMax:		127.5
YMin:		1080.8
YMax:		1083.9
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.37-84.79m.
References:		Image: digital 2015 0828 Object: MF 2015 57 Coins (5)