Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 1167

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 1167
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		N-S robbing trench fill north of wall 366
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1107
Context:		1167
Page:		0
Date:		2013/05/31
Stratum:		small cobbles and pebbles (max 5-7 cm), a little tile, pottery, metal, plaster (faced and unfaced)
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark brownish yellow. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is moderately sorted. It is silty sand.
Notes:		We opened this context as the robbing trench along the east end of the area we have been excavating. This trench, rectangular running N-S, was last excavated in 2012 as context 888; no cut number was assigned, but we hypothesized that this was a robbing trench for a now missing wall, and accordingly gave the cut a context number of 1171. At the south end of the cut area, we exposed larger stones projecting 25 cm north (at 86.04m above sea level) from the face of wall 366. These seem to be foundation stones either for wall 366 or for whatever N-S wall was robbed in the action of C1171. We continued to dig through this very homogeneous fill and exposed a lower level of projecting stones (50 cm from N face, elevation 85.39m above sea level) and, just below that, an extremely flat 'surface' which appears to cover most of the area at the bottom of this context. It is very level across the exposed area, and consists of extremely compact soil (possibly a resting/bedding layer for the now-missing wall?). Two roughly hewn ashlars (45 cm tall) are the base support for the higher projecting rocks; the western one has a plastered face with red paint. It is unclear whether it is in situ or spoliated secondary use, but what is clear is that wall 366 is founded on an earlier structure (with a thin soil deposit between them).
Context Pottery:		Fineware. WW plain,, chafing dish. 1 bodysherd. yellow glazed; Fineware. PreRoman145 bodysherds. ; Fineware. PreClassical9 bodysherds. ; Fineware. WW plain1 handle. green glaze; Fineware. Corinthian archaic with lion and snake; Fineware. WW plain glazed, unslipped, chafing dish. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Premedieval9 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Megarian bowl mold?1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:		160 frag(s) 0.7 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		387 frag(s) 6.4 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		154 frag(s) 0.8 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass, semiopaque white, bs 2; wall plaster, black, 3 (inc. one with molding), red, 2, light blue, 1, white, 3; bone inlay, hemispherical, diam. 0.015, H. 0.01, 1; bronze, misc. frags., 7; bronze ring, plain, diam. 0.023, 1; metal, nail shaft 3, head?, 2; metal, roundhead nail L. 0.04, 1; glass, clear green, outturned rounded rim 1, outward thickened rim 1, bs 2; metal, tack, 1; metal? Stud, conical, bottom concentric circles with hole for attachment; top possibly broken off, diam. 0.027. Top as MF 1255 (saved to lot); lead, shaft, 1; bronze pin, fibula?, L. 0.071, 1. Bent with one pointed end and one flattened (clasp?) end; slag, 2
Period:		Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:		11th century
Grid:		263.12-262.01E, 1007.12-1009.25N
XMin:		262.01
XMax:		263.12
YMin:		1007.12
YMax:		1009.25
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.26-86.05m.
References:		Object: C 2013 13 Object: MF 2013 14