Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 624
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 624
Area:   Nezi Field
Context Type:   Fill
Title:   Lens of fill, third deposit west of drain
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1103
Context:   624
Page:   0
Date:   2009/06/11
Stratum:   60% fine-coarse subrounded pebbles, cobbles, roof tile, pottery, bone
Description:   Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark pinkish brown. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:   Deposit 624 is a lens of chuncky fill west of drain 426 that extends over part of the robbed portion of the drain. The deposit is characterized by the large fragments of roof tile and cobbles in its matrix.
Context Pottery:   Coarseware. triangular rim, basin. 2 rims. ; Coarseware. Byzantine, alabastron. 2 rims. 5 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), unid. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:   8 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    88 frag(s) 1.8 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    61 frag(s) 0.6 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   shell cockle 1, murex 1; Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 4 example(s).; Bone- cranial,maxilla with teeth of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Aves, md (Bird - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 6 example(s).; Bone- mandible of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- mandible w/teeth of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- phalanx of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 2 example(s).; Bone- rib of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 4 example(s).; Bone- tooth of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae, axis of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae, lumbar of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae, thoracic of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).
Period:   Byzantine
Chronology:   12th
Grid:   259.5-257.4E, 1010.05-1011N
XMin:   257.4
XMax:   259.5
YMin:   1010.05
YMax:   1011
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   86.91m.
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Jody Cundy and Dina Boero (2009-06-19 to 2009-06-20)