Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 407
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 407
Area:   Nezi Field
Context Type:   Fill
Title:   Fill over boney ashy layer
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1101
Context:   407
Page:   0
Date:   2008/06/11
Stratum:   40% tile, ceramic, angular and subrounded pebbles, bone, carbon
Description:   Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light yellowish white. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:   407 is a firm light yellowish white sandy silt fill with tile, ceramics, pebbles, carbon, and bone inclusiont.
It sits atop the Boney Ashy Layer and seems to be, via higher elevations, later than the destruction layers to the N.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), chafing dish. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. ww polychrome (1050-1120), plate. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)1 rim. ; Coarseware. Byzantine, amphora. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. pre medieval6 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:   9 frag(s) 0.04 kg. (22% saved) fineware.
    116 frag(s) 1.49 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    34 frag(s) 0.26 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; bronze, lump 1; Bone- indeterminate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 4 example(s).; Bone- mandible of Oryctolagus cuniculus (Rabbit - Domestic) - 1 example(s).; Bone- mandible of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- radius of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- tarsal, astragalus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   11th/12th
Grid:   270.01-269.09E, 1009.08-1010.83N
XMin:   269.09
XMax:   270.01
YMin:   1009.08
YMax:   1010.83
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   87.04-87.13m.
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Joseph Lillywhite, Joel Rygorsky, Matthew Sears, Martin Wells (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13)