| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 303 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Fill of E-W robbing trench | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 303 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/05/20 | |
| Stratum: | small angular and subangular cobbles, pebbles of mixed shapes and sizes, tile and pottery 50% | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light yellowish black. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | We open context 303 to dige an E-W robbing trench. The robbing trench terminates on the W where the wall itself was truncated, and on the N and S where we have defined the cut for the robbing action. Where the robbing trench terminates on the E side, the soil relationship is unclear (does the robbing trench fill cut or overlie the soil to the E?), but excavation should clarify this issue. Panos excavates with a handpick. The soil is loose, but not extremely so. After two passes, the soil becomes harder and redder. Also, in in the W, where the wall is still extant, Panos reveals a few more stones of the wall still in place, which are of a lower course, but contingous with the previously konown easternmost stones of the wall. On the E side of the robbing trench, it becomes clear that the cut or this context cuts context 301, which lies to its E. This fill bottoms out in various way. In the extreme W, as noted above, more stones of the partially robbed-out E-W wall (now equals structure 305) were below this ill. Moving eastward, the fill of this context, a loose light yellowish black soil, gave way for a redder, more compact deposit. In the extreme E, we encountered a third new context, an even redder, more compact soil with many tile inclusions (especially sticking out of the N scarp). It is impossible to say what we hve found herer, but part of a surface running N, or part of a N-S wall still obscured by fill to the N are two possibilities. We close this context, as we have clearly found the bottom of the cut filled by this fill context, even though the cut came down on three different new contexts. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)1 rim. ; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. pre frankish14 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. pitcher. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. bowl. 1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 17 frag(s) 0.11 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 136 frag(s) 2.62 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 19 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | shell lima 1; shell murex 1; shell patela 1; glass colorless base 1 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | third quarter 13th NPD | |
| Grid: | 263.24-258.55E, 999.04-1000.18N | |
| XMin: | 258.55 | |
| XMax: | 263.24 | |
| YMin: | 999.04 | |
| YMax: | 1000.18 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.92-87.28m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Joseph Lillywhite, Joel Rygorsky, Matthew Sears, Martin Wells (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) Image: digital 2008 0124 |
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