Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 680

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 680
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Continuation of Pit 642
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1106
Context:		680
Page:		0
Date:		2012/04/09
Lot:		Lot 2012-001
Stratum:		Pottery, bones, coins, carbon, bronze, iron, shell, marble
Description:		The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:		After digging context 678, we found the foundation trench of wall 366. The foundation trench cuts 678, but the current context (680) cuts the foundation trench of wall 366. This context (680) is a continuation of 642. In the N of the context coin #22 (E: 262.43, N: 1008.87, El: 86.38). The sieving of this area also produced coins # 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. Ionic torus moulding fragment found (L: 0.14 m H: 0.06 m). A number of bases of Roman round mouthed pitchers found. Soil sample #1 taken from middle of N area of 680. Includes soil that was adhering to interior of recovered pot sherds - large body and base sherds and a fragments of a lamp. Soil in N portion is more red in color. At bottom next to wall 366 on E side, 3 cobbles appeared as fill in foundation trench of wall 366. 2 buckets of pottery. LATER INTERPRETATION (23 April 2012): After rain ~10 April, we noticed a distinct soil change within pit 642/680, which barrowman Pavlos had been digging during excavation of 680. This is a yellowish sandy soil with numerous small pebbles, preserved at present in the bottom of the pit on its NW side and on the NW slope above leading into the pit. This sandy pebble matrix is a single lense of fill which should have been excavated as a separate context, which was overlaid by 680. We believe most if not all of our coins from context 680 actually originated in this sandy deposit.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. pre roman17 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .cooking pot as Hesperia 94 #37; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120)2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), mug. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. corinthian relief, cup. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .as Hesperia 94 #45; Fineware. ww polychrome 1 (1050-1120), cup. 1 rim. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Classical, open vessel. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre medieval10 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. round mouthed, pitcher. 5 rims. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		33 frag(s) 0.18 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		1133 frag(s) 15 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
		203 frag(s) 1.97 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass, clear, yellowish tinge, black thread, bs, 1; glass, clear, blueish tinge, bs, 3; iron, lumps, 23; iron, hook, 1; glass, clear, blueish tinge, rim, 1; glass, clear, blue, bs, 1; glass, clear, bottle, funnel mouth, single trail, Jalame 265, 1; bronze, strip, 1; wall plaster, red, 1; wall plaster, pink, 1; iron, nail, square, 2; glass, clear,bluish tinge, bs, 2; raw glass, clear,greenish blue, bs, 1; glass, clear, colorless, bs, 17; glass, clear, yellowish green tinge, rim, 1; glass, clear, silver tinge, bs, 2; bronze, disk, perforated, 3; iron, nail head, 1; wall plaster, yellow, 1; glass, clear, white tinge, bottle, neck, 1
Period:		Byzantine
Chronology:		2/2 11 c. with large quant. Late 3rd/early 4th
Grid:		263.22-261.5E, 1007.05-1009.17N
XMin:		261.5
XMax:		263.22
YMin:		1007.05
YMax:		1009.17
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		86.21-86.46m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Rachel McCleery/Sarah Miller (2012-04-03 to 2012-04-20) Coins (8)