Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 5251
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 5251
Area:   Nezi Field
Context Type:   Fill
Title:   leveling fill
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1101
Context:   5251
Page:   0
Date:   2008/04/15
Stratum:   20% stones, sherds, charcoal, and bone
Description:   Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is hard. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:   We excavated this area in order to try to find associated floor levels w/ the N-S wall and to search for other features and installations that might relate to the pit/structure 5204/5239 in the North. Despite the whitish clay crust on top of 5251, this layer turned out to be mixed debris possibly intended as sub-floor fill to level this area for clay floor 5202. After excavating 5251, it did not reveal a floor level that interacted with the walls nor did reveal features relevant to the pit/structure 5204/5239.
Context Pottery:   Coarseware. amphora. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. measles, slipped slip painted sgraffito (1140-1160), plate. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. premedieval2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. coarse incised, bowl. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), dish. 1 rim. ; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. light on dark IV, slip painted (1225-1260), bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 rim.
Pottery Summary:   12 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    65 frag(s) 0.9 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    10 frag(s) 0.03 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   marble revetment white 1; bone transverse process lumbar 1; bronze nail 1; shell patella 1; glass dark green bs 1; bronze slag 1; tesserae white 2; Bone- distal+shaft tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- fragment rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s).; Bone- zygomatic arch (cranial) cranial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   1250-1270
Grid:   263.15-261.5E, 104.4-1043.86N
XMin:   261.5
XMax:   263.15
YMin:   104.4
YMax:   1043.86
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   85.04-85.1m.
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Thanos Webb (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13)
Coin: 2008 49