Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 42

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 42
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		general fill
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1100
Context:		42
Page:		0
Date:		2007/04/18
Stratum:		20% very poorly sorted inclusions of small to medium pebbles (subrounded and angular), tile fragments, bone frgaments (more than in B40) and pottery sherds in a light, yellowish brown, soft, loose sandy soil
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. Bottom slope of the context is slight down to the NThe soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		After B40 was closed and bottom elevations taken Cleomenes started excavating B42. He removed B42 from E to W in doing so he further defined the extent and nature of the area of cobble inclusions shown on the plan for B42 that borders B40 at its extreme easting. This cobble-dense deposit is not part of a larger feature (they are a contained context) so they will be removed with B42. To better define the boundary between B42 and the white layer under B28 Cleomenes excavated all the eastern most section of B42 down to the next stratum, a harder black soil layer. In doing so he also defined the border between the white layer under B28 and the new harder black layer. We expect to find the continuation and northern terminus of the robbering trench from B40 after removing the section of B42 that we think is lying on top of it. After removing this layer of B42 Cleomenes did uncover the continuation and northern terminus of the robbering trench. The trench's northern terminus is the edge of H. Robinson's 1961 excavation escarpment. Work continues in B42 on 26/4/07 with Cleomenes continuing to remove B42. Working from E to W he is removing the remnants of B42 while constantly defining its interface with the new layer below it and its borders with other neighboring contexts. Cleomenes found a coin at El. 86.64, 1013.52 N, and 269.05 E. The removal of B42 revealed more tile fragments. Directly N of these tile fragments were more tile fragments but with the addition of large cobbles. The rocks and tiles are present up until the southern boundary of the white soil area (B ).
Context Pottery:		Fineware. interior glazed pithos1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Dark on light slip painted, slipped (1140-1180)1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. pre-medieval8 bodysherds. ; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100)1 rim. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300)1 rim. 3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260)3 rims. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300)2 rims. 7 bodysherds. ; Fineware. lemon pl gl1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335)1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. light on dark IV, slip painted (1225-1260)2 rims. 3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260); Fineware. ottoman painted sgraffito1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. other glazed13 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:		76 frag(s) 1.12 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		322 frag(s) 5.42 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		95 frag(s) 1.62 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass modern clear colorless base 0.05 diam. 1 opaque brown BS 1; iron nail incomplete round shank 1; bronze spindle hook L. 0.036 Max. Diam. 0.005 as mf 7968 Corinth XII #1223 1; glass clear greenish stemmed glass BS with stem attachment 1; iron object crescent shaped L. 0.064 W. 0.016 Th. 0.005 1
Period:		Turkish II (1715-1831 AD)
Chronology:		ca 1800
Grid:		274.57-263E, 1010.16-1014.21N
XMin:		263
XMax:		274.57
YMin:		1010.16
YMax:		1014.21
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		87-87.39m.
Is Above:		52
Is Below:		13
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lydia Herring, Josh Langseth, Kris Lorenzo (2007-04-09 to 2007-05-18) Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lydia Herring, Josh Langseth, Kris Lorenzo (2007-04-09 to 2007-04-27) Image: digital 2007 0038 Image: digital 2007 0100 Coin: 2007 74