Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 878

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 878
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Irregular surface, east Room 6
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1109
Context:		878
Date:		2015/06/15
Stratum:		15% inclusions, mostly small pieces. Bone, some pottery
Description:		The soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is loose. It is silty clay.
Notes:		Irregularly contoured surface or deposit, with few visible inclusions,extending from NE corner south until context 877. Seems to sit atop another inclusion-filled surface that continues further south. Few inclusions, relative to surrounding contexts; most are only 1-2 cm. Excavation continued the morning of 16/6. At the NE corner of grave 2015-08, we come down on a semicircular depression, perhaps from a bothros or tomb. Beneath the rest, there are a series of rocky, soft layers that would need to be peeled away subsequently. 24/06/2015 Larkin Kennedy, Rossana Valente Animal bones: sheep/goat, bovid, oyster (1.24 kg) all thrown.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. light on dark IV, slip painted (1225-1260), bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. late painted sgraffito, bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), plate. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:		64 frag(s) 0.25 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		1101 frag(s) 5.36 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		124 frag(s) 1.05 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		iron nail square shank, 3; glass clear yellow prunted beaker, bs1; bronze pin looped at one end, L. 0.032
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		14th c. NPD
Grid:		119.52-118.1E, 1081.99-1084.8N
XMin:		118.1
XMax:		119.52
YMin:		1081.99
YMax:		1084.8
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.96-85.05m.
References:		Image: digital 2015 0975 Image: digital 2015 0976