Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 5539
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 5539
Area:   Nezi Field
Context Type:   Surface
Title:   Floor surface underneath wall 5368
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1101
Context:   5539
Page:   0
Date:   2008/05/19
Stratum:   Fine to large pebbles, angular spherical and tabular. Tile. 35%
Description:   Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is hard. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clay.
Notes:   We are taking another layer from the area where the excavated wall of 5360 once was, just north of Wall 5411. Beneath the clayey layer, we expose light reddish soil, very soil. We continue until we reach firmer soil similar to the soil that surrounds the deposit.
Context Pottery:   Coarseware. pitcher, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. amphora. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. plastic, unslipped (1050-1100), cup. 1 handle. ; Fineware. sgraffito style 2, bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. premedieval2 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:   5 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    63 frag(s) 0.74 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    11 frag(s) 0.06 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   glass clear yellow 2 yellowish 2 greenish 2 colorless 2; bronze 2; iron lump 1; iron nail square shank 2; wall plaster white 1
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   mid 12th npd
Grid:   265.54-265.1E, 1028.55-1029.95N
XMin:   265.1
XMax:   265.54
YMin:   1028.55
YMax:   1029.95
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   84.89-84.96m.
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Jody Cundy and Megan Thompsen (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13)