Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 624

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 624
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		'Chaotic' lense around Grave 2014-09
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1109
Context:		624
Date:		2015/04/24
Stratum:		Inclusions: large stones, pottery, tile, brick, bone, some charcoal
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is moderately sorted. It is silty clay.
Notes:		Opening Elevation: E: 127.029 N: 1076.481 Z: 84.711 This is a stony, "chaotic" (using Guy's terminology) fill to the north and east of Grave 2014-09. The boundary is clearly seen in the northern and western parts of the context area, but becomes much less so in the east. It is possible that it runs all the way to the wall, even though the workmen do not think it does at the surface. I even thought it could be part of the same mottled fill as context 613 (first pass). The workmen left the area alone as we moved from east to west, though, and clearly think it is something different. The soil is the same, however. It merely has a few large stones and more tile and brick in it. But tile and brick were brought up in quantities in the later passes of the mottled fill in the western half of the trench as well. Along the northern edge of the grave towards the east, it was much deeper than I expected. This area contained large stones that may have originally been part of the lining of either Grave 2014-09 or 2015-1. Otherwise, the fill was quite jumbled, never flattened. It perhaps resulted from partial wall collapse from the northern wall of the nave (Wall 20). 1\06\2015 (Larkin Kennedy, Rossana Valente, Katie Petrole) Large animal bone (possible bovine) + saltwater shell. Burnt patches. 1.4 kg. All thrown.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. pre-Frankish4 bodysherds. ; Fineware. pre-Roman2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Frankish sgraffito, bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. light on dark IV, slip painted (1225-1260), bowl. ; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 2 rims. ; Fineware. Frankish incised, dish. 1 rim. 4 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. pre-Byzantine1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. late champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1200-1225), bowl.
Pottery Summary:		27 frag(s) 0.26 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		154 frag(s) 1.89 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		39 frag(s) 0.21 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		bronze lump 1; iron buckle or attachment (smaller than MF-2014-40) 1; glass clear colorless bs 1, colorless imbedded thread bs 1; iron nail square shank 2, round shank 1; glass clear green rim 1; glass clear blue imbedded threads bs 1
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		mid-13th c.
Grid:		127.87-124.85E, 1075.92-1076.7N
XMin:		124.85
XMax:		127.87
YMin:		1075.92
YMax:		1076.7
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.55-84.711m.
References:		Image: digital 2015 0461