Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 7054
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 7054
Area:   Nezi Field
Context Type:   Fill
Title:   foundation trench fill
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1104
Context:   7054
Page:   0
Date:   2010/06/01
Lot:   Lot 2010-040
Stratum:   This soil was light yellowish brown, a sandy silt, soft and fine grained, which contained ca. 20% inclusions, made up of ceramic sherds, bone, rooftile, sub rounded and angular coarse pebbles.
Description:   The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is well sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:   This is a foundation trench fill north of walls 5741 and 7038. It fills cut 7053 and is fairly soft, with ca. 20% inclusions. It is ca. 25-30 cm. N-S and appears to abut another foundation trench for wall 7039 on the northern edge of the westernmost section. North of this narrow trench are several compacted surfaces, which cannot be removed until the foundation trench is removed. This is in the room NE of the courtyard.
Context Pottery:   Coarseware. jar. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)3 rims. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. preroman2 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:   2 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    149 frag(s) 1.6 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    46 frag(s) 0.5 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   iron lump 4; shell, lima; glass clear blue 1bs green 2bs; Bone- cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- mandible w/teeth of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- proximal tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 4 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- shaft, distal tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   12th century
Grid:   274.44-271.22E, 1036.45-1036.58N
XMin:   271.22
XMax:   274.44
YMin:   1036.45
YMax:   1036.58
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   84.45-84.76m.
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2010 by Charlotte Maxwell-Jones (2010-05-31 to 2010-06-18)
Image: digital 2010 1157