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Corinth Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 56 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Basket | | Name: | | Temple E, Southeast, context 56 | | Area: | | Temple E, Southeast | | Context Type: | | Deposit | | Title: | | Third pit fill north of Unit 2 Room F | | Category: | | Deposit | | Notebook: | | 1108 | | Context: | | 56 | | Date: | | 2014/04/11 | | Stratum: | | Ceramic, Pebbles, Bone | | Description: | | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | | Notes: | | This deposit is the clayey silt deposit found under the western side of Pit 53. It was dug to continue the exploration of the stratigraphy, especially the floor that it border to the east, and the stones (perhaps tumble) that are visible from a vertical examination of the stratigraphy under this context. As we move south to north, the soil itself is starting to clump less. The silt content is higher than we expected judging from the NW edge of pit 55. As we move south to north the depth of the deposit is much shallower. We come down on a layer of clay that seems to mark the bottom boundary. The eastern boundary of the deposit is bound by harder soil. Roots have permeated much ot the eastern side and have distorted the dirt. We come down on a cluster of rocks 0.30m west of the eastern boundary; whether this is tumble or the remains of a wall needs to be determined. As we move to the south, we come down on a layer of ceramic about 0.75m from the southern scarp, and 0.25m down from the beginning elevation. In the dirt above the ceramic, some ash was detected. Tbe excavation was halted on the east side when it was realized that the entire silty deposit was bounded by a layer of clay, and the west when excavation began to move deeper than expected. Since it could be confidently determined whether we were coming down on a new context, we cautiously closed the currect one. We are moving on to excavate the context to the east. Our original expectation that this context was a pit in incorrect - it has neither the shape noe depth that would accord with this. Instead, it seems to be a deposit of tumble or rubble. The next context - the clay surface to the east, should clarify this. The last issue to consider is the stone uncovered on the NW corner of the context. There is some linearity on the way the stones are laid, suggesting particularly an EW orientation. Excavation of the surface to the east could shed some light on whether this is tumble or a wall. This context should perhaps be associated with the rubble layer mentioned in B 32 and 33 of NB 869 which were excavated at roughly the same eleveation just south of the northern baulk.
Later note: After further excavation to the east of 56, it became apparent that something was wrong. We determined that the problem was 56 which we should have dug as two separate basket: one on the north side and one on the south. Since the area was truncated so many times by human activity, the differentiation of soils became extremely difficult. Thus, what should have been a separate context in the northern portion of 56 is now represented by context 84 and its cut 87. The cut for the southern portion of 56 is 86. This makes the most sense given what we know about the formation of the other pits in the southern portion of this are (56, 75, and 76). | | Context Pottery: | | Fineware. ottoman glaze painted, bowl with flaring rim. 1 rim. ; Fineware. grotallieno decoration; Fineware. basin. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. imitation porcelein1 bodysherd. italian? | | Pottery Summary: | | 29 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | | | | 109 frag(s) 0.88 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | | | | 19 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | | Context Artifacts: | | carbon, 1 | | Period: | | Early Modern (1831-1949 AD) | | Grid: | | 109.44-107.58E, 1076.82-1079.23N | | XMin: | | 107.58 | | XMax: | | 109.44 | | YMin: | | 1076.82 | | YMax: | | 1079.23 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | Masl: | | 85.97-86.1m. | | References: | | Images (4)
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