| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 470 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Wall | |
| Title: | Wall | |
| Category: | Cut | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 470 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/04/14 | |
| Stratum: | 90% pebbles, boulders, cobbles, rooftile | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark yellowish brown. It is sandy silt. Structure materials: limestone, conglomerate. Material size: large boulders. Material finish: unworked. Material construction: random uncoursed. Material bonding: none. | |
| Notes: | Drain 470 is comprised of four stones oriented N-S and abutting the line of where we assume wall 366 extended. Three stones on the E side form a straight exterior line and the fourth stone sits opposite at about the distance we would expect for a drain. 470 runs roughly parallel to drain 426 to the NE but we have no indication of whether they were contemporary or whether one predates the other. We also do not yet know the relationship between drain 470 and wall 366. Was the drain laid down before or after the wall was robbed out? We also do not know how far this drain extended to the N. The bottom of the drain is lined with broken roof tiles and smaller stones. Further discussions with Panos and Guy have changed our understanding of this structure. Panos noted rightly that the stones are aligned on the outside and not the inside, as you would expect from a drain. So we now think that this is the remnants of a wall that abutted 366 and ran N-S. The one stone on the E is not finished or straight on the outside, suggesting that the wall would have been wider than we currently have here. This would make it wider than wall 306, which would have intersected 366 a bit to the W (the corner of these two walls has been robbed out). Context 469 now represents later fill that was laid on the ruined /robbed wall 470. There is a patch of yellowish clay soil on the NE corner of 470 with some large stones sticking out. This may be fill from the robbing/destruction of wall 470. Removal of 470 and this yellow clay will help us date the structure. Later Notes 23/4/09: This wall does not have a final date yet since it has not been excavated. Later notes 25/05/09: We are removing the stub wall 470 that appears to have abutted the E-W wall 366 prior to portions of that wall being robbed out. The stones of the stub wall 470 are sitting on top of the deposits around it, and it is evident from the scarp of the robbing trench 497 (robbing of wall 366) that the stub wall 470 does not continue down to a lower elevation. The removal of the stub wall 470 is expected to reveal the interface between the cobbly deposit to the east and the cobbly deposit to the west of the srub wall 470. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. inwardly sloping rim stewpot (950-150)2 rims. 1 handle. ; Coarseware. amphora byzantine3 handles. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 1 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 62 frag(s) 0.94 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 6 frag(s) 0.04 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear bluish bs 2 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | second half 12th | |
| Grid: | 258.25-258.14E, 1006.53-1007.96N | |
| XMin: | 258.14 | |
| XMax: | 258.25 | |
| YMin: | 1006.53 | |
| YMax: | 1007.96 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.9-87.09m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Stella Diakou and Cavan Concannon (2009-03-30 to 2009-04-16) Image: digital 2009 1492 Image: digital 2009 1493 Coin: 2009 125 |
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