Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 637

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 637
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Soft material in western half of trench
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1109
Context:		637
Date:		2015/04/28
Lot:		Lot 2015-024
Stratum:		Inclusions 20%: pottery, bone, tile, brick, some cobbles (sub-rounded)
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light greyish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:		Coin (#44) from sieve Kostas began to take off the soft, clean material in the western half of the trench after break. He is coming down uon a hard, rough layer, similar to the pebbly surface but without the pebble-sized inclusions. The layer is thin towards the center of the trench, but grows deeper in the NW corner, around the stub wall. Some white mortar was found just north of the far western stone of the line of stones uncovered under/within 626 in the SW corner of the trench. It is the densest patch of mortar I have seen in the trench thus far. The mortar seems to respoect the line of stones, meaning that the mortar has only appeared to the north of the stones. Kostas also says that the soil on top of and beyond the line of stones is different. I will take it out as a different context. Kostas is finishing the removal of the soft material in the NW corner before turning to that, though. 3/06/2015 (L. Kennedy, R. Valente) All bones lotted with pottery, 1.53 kg, not examined.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. late champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1200-1225), bowl. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), plate. 2 rims. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-Frankish10 bodysherds. ; Fineware. pre-Roman5 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 3 rims. 26 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. aegean sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Frankish incised, bowl. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. light on dark IV, slip painted (1225-1260), bowl. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-Medieval7 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), lamp. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slip and glaze painted, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 rim. 5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), cup. 1 handle. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		78 frag(s) 0.5 kg. (72% saved) fineware.
		374 frag(s) 3.1 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		82 frag(s) 0.38 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass clear colorless solid rim 2; iron sheet 1; glass clear colorless BS 5; bronze sheet with perforations (as Corinth 12, cat. 860 or 2245); glass clear colorless prunted beaker BS 1; glass clear colorless greenish BS 4; iron nail with square shank 2; glass clear colorless with added band BS 1; metal fragment 1; glass clear colorless tubular rim (as MF-9766); glass clear colorless solid rim 1; lead mending strip (INV. MF-2015-06); glass clear colorless brownish BS 1; glass clear colorless purple BS 3; glass clear colorless blueish BS 3
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		mid-13th c.
Grid:		124.7-121.95E, 1075.07-1078N
XMin:		121.95
XMax:		124.7
YMin:		1075.07
YMax:		1078
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.524-84.574m.
References:		Image: digital 2015 0507 Object: MF 2015 6 Coin: 2015 44