Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 5985

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 5985
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Pier Foundation - W
Category:		Cut
Notebook:		1103
Context:		5985
Page:		0
Date:		2009/04/06
Stratum:		Subrounded small and medium pebbles; 10%
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark greyish brown. It is sandy silt. Structure materials: Medium and large angular cobbles. Material size: 0.20m x 0.15m x 0.10m to 0.10m x 0.12m x 0.10m. Material finish: unfinished. Material construction: uncoursed. Material bonding: none apparent.
Notes:		This context is the bottom of a foundation trench for a pier or an arch to the west of threshold 5919. The soil is looser and greyer than the red compact soil outside the cut. This part of the foundation contains some small and medium cobbles that are pretty even on all sides, as well as some long and flatter small angular boulders. These stones are significantly larger than those in higher levels, but are still within the cut for the foundation trench. Two coins were found in this unit (2009-21: 1026.67, 278.15, 84.19; 2009-24: sieve). We came down on soil without cobble or boulder inclusions, characterized by hard red soil. We stopped the context here, and interpret this to be the bottom of the west pier foundation. Just before this level we came down on the largest stones in the pier foundation (ca. 0.30m by 0.25cm). This context became narrower E-W because we came down on some stones along the west edge of the unit that are outside the cut (extending about 15 cm E from the original edge of the context). These stones are at an elevation of 84.14, about 0.50m above the bottom of the context.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. light on dark I, slip painted (1100-1125), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)2 rims. ; Fineware. premedieval 6; Coarseware. pedestal bowl, bowl. 1 rim.
Pottery Summary:		9 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		86 frag(s) 1.1 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		43 frag(s) 0.3 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		Bone- cranial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 4 example(s).; Bone- innominate of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 5 example(s).; Bone- mandible of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 4 example(s).; Bone- mandible of Equus sp (Horse, Ass Family) - 2 example(s).; Bone- Not in Table - 4 example(s).; Bone- radius of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- radius of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- radius of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- radius of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 2 example(s).; Bone- rib of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- ulna of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 1 example(s).
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		late 13th
Grid:		278.35-277.18E, 1026.51-1027.05N
XMin:		277.18
XMax:		278.35
YMin:		1026.51
YMax:		1027.05
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		83.64-84.61m.
References:		Images (4) Coin: 2009 21 Coin: 2009 24