| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 459 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Dumped Fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 459 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/04/10 | |
| Stratum: | roof tiles, pebbles, cobbles, boulders, pottery, bones, plaster. 70% | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | Context 459 consists of a pile of dumped roof tiles and other materials that abuts the W scarp of the Nezi field excavations. The high level of inclusions marks this area as a distinct context. The E part of the pile was revealed in the 2008 excavations with context 411. The first context of 2009 (434) revealed the W portion, which runs up to the W scarp and may proceed further W beyond the limits of the excavation field. We are excavating this context to ascertain the nature of this pile, though we think it is probably dumped fill. We are also looking to clarify the stratigraphy of the area N of wall 366. Excavations of the black soil in this area (458) revealed a hard brown soil which may be an outdoor surface. This pile of material may be laid on this brown soil. The roof tiles coming out of this context are all broken and they are mixed in with higher amounts of subangular cobbles and boulders than the surrounding area. Unlike the pile of largely intact or nearly whole roof tiles unearthed in the S part of 434, this pile seems more like dumped fill than a roof collapse. Small pieces of plaster are among the inclusions, further suggesting that this is dumped building material. As excavation continues, Panos has followed the heavily included soil further to the N, though the number and size of the inclusions here has diminished somewhat. Panos found a coin at E 257.07/N 1008.12/H 86.81. On the N and S Panos thinks he has found a cut within which the deposit lies. This might further suggest that this was a dumping place for broken or robbed building material. Excavation halted when we began to suspect that Panos had overdug this fill, going well under the pile of debris on the surface. The suspected cut on the N is still in place, though there is an unexplained depression of softer soil to the NE. On the S side a cut does not seem to have existed. In over-digging the tile fill we have reached a new brown soil with tile and boulder inclusions. We have not reached the end of this soil but we are closing this context to clarify a more complicated stratigraphy with regard to a possible floor revealed to the NE in context 460. The stratigraphy under 460 appears to be later than the soil we have been digging in 459, so we will clarify the chronology and return later. While sweeping the floor a coin was revealed at E 257.51/N 1007.73/H 86.83. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. blue frit, jar. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-early modern23 bodysherds. ; Fineware. pre-medieval8 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 32 frag(s) 0.45 kg. (3% saved) fineware. | |
| 401 frag(s) 11.15 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 45 frag(s) 0.65 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; 1 shell spondolous; roof tiles 9, 0.85 kg; iron, nail, square shank, complete, 5.9cm; Bone- cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 13 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 5 example(s).; Bone- humerus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 6 example(s).; Bone- humerus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- indeterminate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 22 example(s).; Bone- mandible of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 11 example(s).; Bone- mandible of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of Canis familiaris (Dog - Domestic) - 1 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 6 example(s).; Bone- radioulna of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 3 example(s).; Bone- radius of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 7 example(s).; Bone- radius of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 3 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 7 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 4 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 3 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 6 example(s). | |
| Period: | Turkish II (1715-1831 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 18th c. npd | |
| Grid: | 257.86-255.51E, 1007.38-1009.63N | |
| XMin: | 255.51 | |
| XMax: | 257.86 | |
| YMin: | 1007.38 | |
| YMax: | 1009.63 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.98m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Stella Diakou and Cavan Concannon (2009-03-30 to 2009-04-16) Coin: 2009 38 Coin: 2009 40 |
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