Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 5177

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 5177
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Archaelogical cleaning of scarp
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1101
Context:		5177
Page:		0
Date:		2008/04/16
Stratum:		Tiles, pottery, and angular cobbles. Coarse and medium pebbles.
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the S. The soil color is light brownish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand.
Notes:		We start taking context 5177. It is defined by being a band of looser soil with many inclusions running N-S along the west scarp of our area between the rock pile at c. 1023N and the wall at the south end of our area at c. 1020.3N. The looser soil comes off leaving a ledge in the scarp. This looser soil seems to be a possible cut for the robbing trench of the Turkish House wall. Because it appeared to be cut by the pit to the south, this context stoppped. At this point, the scarp was scraped to gain a better understanding of the area. The pit fill continued along the south wall of our area for another 1m. This will be removed next as context 5183. From what is in the scarp, this seems to sit on top of a reddish brown soil which is on top of a burnt layer (at 84.90El.) above a yellowish brown soil which appears to sit on a yellowish clay surface at 84.73El.. This appears to go over the top of a new wall revealed just to the west of the scarp at c. 1020.5N and 263E at 84.81 El. Above all of this, in the scarp at about 1020.5N is a pit with many inclusions visible. This cuts the reddish soil but is below what is now the surface of our area. The rock pile appears to be deposited within a cut through the above mentioned strata. This will be removed after the remainder of the pit. This may be associated with the terracing of dirt from the 1960s excavations. This will be context 5190. This context, 5177, wsa removed from the Harris Matrix because it is unclear how this context interacts with those to the north and south. Initially, 5177 was taking a darker looser fill along the scarp. This was possibly overdug and became more of a cleaning of the scarp. Context 5177 abutted 5190. There is a possibility that 5194 cut 5177, but this is uncertain by the way that 5177 and 5190 interacted. Also, 5177 came up to 5183. It was at this point that 5183 was taken with the assumption that it was part of 5171. Therefore, it seems that 5183 would have been inside a cut through 5177, but this interface is uncertain. Therefore, because of its nature of uncertainty, this context is best considered cleaning and kept outside the Harris Matrix.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. Premedieval34 bodysherds. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120)1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:		39 frag(s) 0.19 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		186 frag(s) 3.32 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		56 frag(s) 0.32 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		iron lump 1; lead waster, one surface smooth 1; iron nail round shank 2; glass colorless 4 green bs 1 rim of plate 2 Diam. 0.25; shell unid 2
Period:		Byzantine
Chronology:		11th Century
Grid:		263.6-262.9E, 1020.5-1023.6N
XMin:		262.9
XMax:		263.6
YMin:		1020.5
YMax:		1023.6
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.08-85.44m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Jody Cundy and Megan Thompsen (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Matthew J. Baumann and Nathanael J. Andrade (2008-04-07 to 2008-04-23) Image: digital 2008 0009 Image: digital 2008 0010