Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 592

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 592
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Cleaning of tiles, room 4 (unit 2)
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1109
Context:		592
Date:		2015/04/21
Stratum:		40%; tiles, shards, shells, carbon, lime, cobbles, roots, bones.
Description:		The soil color is light brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand.
Notes:		Tiles form a grave; the grave cut is defined by a different soil color than in the rest of the surrounding area. The filling soil is fine, loose sand of light brown color; outside it is reddish and/or big lime spots. Tiles in the western half of the grave form a "roof", the northern edge is obscured by a rubble baulk. Eastern end is filled by rubble (pottery and tile fragments). Southern edge is defined by several rocks and different soil color (reddish), but in the western half is less clear due to the long exposure to weather and thus mingling with the adjacent grave. North edge runs along the rubble baulk abutting the wall. Defining the confines of the eastern half grows more complicated due to slight soil difference; from brown to harder with lots of lime. Also the tiles are often accompanied by plaster. So far several bone fragments have been found, but they most likely belong to the already excavated burials. The soild difference (in the eastern half) was caused by drying throughout the day (heat turned it to nearly rock hard substance) and lots of the hard clay was probably rubble from the actual act of digging the grave back in the medieval. Also it is filled with many shards (pottery, tile, plaster) and rocks. It is poorly sorted, probably because of the rubble which fell onto the tile coffin and broke it. The edges are clear now: in western half they run along the tiles, in eastern a darker hue of soil marks an easily visible edge. 2 tile fragments support this observation. The grave is a child's size. In the fill, a small fragment of gouged sgraffito (ca. 2nd quarter of the 13th century) was found. Excavated by A. Lorenzova. 02/06/2015 (L Kennedy): Animal bones: land snail, very scrappy terrestrial bone, 0.14 kg, all thrown. Human: one possibly human metacarpal, proximal end unfused
Context Pottery:		Fineware. pre-medieval1 rim. ; Fineware. frankish incised, plate. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. pre-roman3 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:		6 frag(s) 0.04 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		32 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		7 frag(s) 0.05 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		tile 2; plaster white 6
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		second half of 13th century
Grid:		117.84-116E, 1070.7-1071.6N
XMin:		116
XMax:		117.84
YMin:		1070.7
YMax:		1071.6
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.5-84.65m.
References:		Image: digital 2015 0402