Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 1033

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 1033
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Context Type:		Deposit
Title:		Fill in SE Corner with Tile Inclusions
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1110
Context:		1033
Date:		2016/06/14
Stratum:		medium and large angular tiles, pottery, plaster, a few cobbles (angular and platy), many fine angular and subrounded tabular pebbles, fine pieces of lime mortar. Overall 40%
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is clayey sand.
Notes:		(D. Smotherman) Coin 178 found at N:1069.8; E 128.3; H 85.10 This fill is darker and has more large inclusions, expecially tile, than the layer of fill above. There may be a cut, along the walls, which this deposit fills, but at this time (the start of the deposit) this is not clear. The pile of lime plaster in the SE corner revealed by 1026 was not a floor, but rather just a pile of lime, and Kostas removed it whith the present context. Its top elevation was taken on 6/13 though (85.191). Coin 179 found at N 1068.8, E 128.5, H 85.09 Coin 180 found at N 1068.85, E 128.80, H: 85.05 This context is a relatively deep layer of fill. As Kostas has made each pass (3 thus far), he has not been able to identify a cut, which we intially thought was there. Fewer tiles appear in the lower passes than in the upper layer of fill (but still appear), but otherwise the fill is consistent throughout each pass. The fourth pass, once again, included many medium and large angular tile fragments. (KES) It revealed many flat-laying, but not articulated tile fragments in the east end of the context. They appear jumbled, possibly from being dumped there. They do seem to be within a cut mark which cuts the context almost diagonally from SW to NE. The lime concrete floor (Context 1029) along the middle of south wall 929 does appear to continue to th east at the bottom of this context. Patches of white lime are scattered on the exposed level.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), pitcher. 1 rim. ; Fineware. white ware, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), cup. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:		86 frag(s) 0.29 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		620 frag(s) 5.33 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		185 frag(s) 1.09 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		possible belt buckle, iron semi-circle 1; plaster red 1; glass clear greenish bs 1, base 1; thin iron shaft 1; possible thick iron tong 1; glass clear colorless bs 1; small iron nail head 1; bronze lump 1
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Grid:		130.4-128E, 1068.6-1070.15N
XMin:		128
XMax:		130.4
YMin:		1068.6
YMax:		1070.15
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.96-85.19m.
References:		Images (5) Object: MF 2016 64 Coin: 2016 178 Coin: 2016 179 Coin: 2016 180