Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 5695

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 5695
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Fill
Title:		dumped fill
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1101
Context:		5695
Page:		0
Date:		2008/05/29
Stratum:		15% inclusions: bone, small tile fragments, small pottery fragments, small angular platy pebbles
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark greenish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is well sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		This context was excavated as a fill of dark, soft soil that appeared to overlie a harder, more reddish-colored soil to its W, and which lay just S of the expected location of the robbing trench for Wall 6 and its continuation westward. Digging revealed what appered to be a semicircular boundary with the flat edge abutting the projected continuation of Wall 6. The boundary was determined by a clayey texture at the edges, but was diffuse. At the end of this context, a clear cut for the foundation trench was thought to be exposed in the new level of clayey soil at the botto. Talking it over with the pickman who has uncovered the robbing trench to the E, he noted that the cut was very diffuse at its first moment of recognition. The upshot of our discussion is that we think that we had already defined the cut for the robbing trench at the start of this context- but we were hesitant to excavate it because we did not want to believe that t eh harder deposit was later than the softer (i.e., that the hard fill in the putative path of the foundation trench could "fill" the softer matrix of soio to its S; however, this appears to have been the case, meaning that we have excavated out of seqenc. The robbing event would have postdated the soft deposit, and appears to have cut its surface, along with the surface of the harder, reddish dirt directly N of this context. Additional note, 29.05.08: As the bottom was further defined, we lost the edge of the cut, rather than seeing it become more clear. It appears that our idea about the cut for the robbing trench being present at the start (and the end) of this context is not correct. The pickman did feel that he perceived a clear edge to the W of the context, where the soil lay against the edge of Wall 6. We decided to next excavate northward from context 5693, to see if there was any evidence for a robbed N-S wall that once lay W of Wall 5473.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. RMR, slipped (1275-1325), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. ; Fineware. 6 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Venetian I, bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), bowl. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. amphora. 1 handle. 5 bodysherds. ; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), pitcher. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:		14 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		102 frag(s) 0.95 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		5 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		last quarter of the 13th century, ca. 1290
Grid:		265.4-264.2E, 1033.73-1034.61N
XMin:		264.2
XMax:		265.4
YMin:		1033.73
YMax:		1034.61
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.74-84.91m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Sarah Lima (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13)