Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 5328

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 5328
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		fill below floor
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1101
Context:		5328
Page:		0
Date:		2008/04/23
Stratum:		inclusions: pebbles but mainly angular cobbles, spherical to tabular (10%); broken tiles (7%); rare carbon chunks; frequent bone; total inclusions 30%
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		Coordinates other than N taken from plan. This area is underneath the floor removed in 5314. It is slightly blacker than the area around it. I think it could possible, at the top, be another floor surface, but it does have many inclusions and could be firmer because people walked on the floor above. In any event, the worker is removing the thin crust with loose soil below. We are excavating this context because there was red soil in the bottom of the small pit in the NW that we thought might go under this area. Also, because of the softness at the center of the foundation trench to the S and the way it acts with the soil to the N, we think there may be a large pit here. This context was dug very rapidly and is a bit difficult to reconstruct. We came down on a large cutting to which some of this of this soil belongs possibly to the uppermost part. In the far SW the soil reached is hard red, continuing where the small pit had been. About 1.30m E along the N face of the S foundation trench begins the softer soil we reached with large inclusions. This soft soil follows the contours of the context. The soil is mixed in color and in nature of the inclusions. For instance, there is a lot of ash in the center. Future excavators should be able to trace the outlines of this possible pit fairly easily, knowing that it reaches all the way to the center of the N face of the southern foundation trench. All of the "pit" will be below 5328 (though they will probably want to separate the soils into different contexts). The area in the far SW, around the small pit dug last year, was dug as part of 5328 but reached a different soil. I do not think the sievers were attentive because they returned with much fewer tiles and sherds than there should have been.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. Attic, unidentified. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. pitcher. 3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. AfRS, unidentified. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. pre-Roman10 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. nied77. 3 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:		15 frag(s) 0.06 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		98 frag(s) 1.63 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		50 frag(s) 0.29 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		iron strip 2; bone dice 1 (saved to lot); bronze strip 2; glass clear white bs 11, flat base with vertical wall (mug?) 1; glass clear blue bs 3, flat bases (probably for unguentaria) 2; bone 1 env; tesserae grey 1; bone pin 1; olive pit - discarded; wall plaster 1 env; iron brooch 1; tiles 25 weghing 3kg - discarded; Bone- complete phalanx, 3rd of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- distal frag metatarsal of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- fragment rib of Ruminant, sm (Ruminant, sm) - 3 example(s).; Bone- fragment vertebrae, thoracic of Ruminant, sm (Ruminant, sm) - 2 example(s).; Bone- spongy bone indeterminate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 6 example(s).
Period:		Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:		5th-6th
Grid:		275.17-272.17E, 1021.05-1022.36N
XMin:		272.17
XMax:		275.17
YMin:		1021.05
YMax:		1022.36
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.39-85.55m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Nathan T. Arrington and Andrew (Drew) W. Sweet (2008-04-07 to 2008-04-23) Image: digital 2008 0052 Coin: 2008 78