Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 5042

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 5042
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Fill over a floor or surface
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1100
Context:		5042
Page:		0
Date:		2007/05/09
Stratum:		Dark greyish brown with blackish mix. 10% inclusions.
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the NE. Bottom slope of the context is slight down to the NEThe soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is moderately sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		This is the deposit previously referred to as "the fill of NNW pit", directly under the red soil in B 5039. It has a much greater extent in all directions except S than B 5039. We are not sieving this soil. It is starting to become apparent that the so-called "NNW pit" is not a pit at all.
Context Pottery:		Coarseware. palestinian1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. lid1 rim. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. pre-Roman1 rim. 2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. nied772 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. roundm, pitcher. 1 rim.
Pottery Summary:		3 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		35 frag(s) 0.79 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		26 frag(s) 0.34 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		obsidian worked Max. P. L. 0.019m 1; bone unid 1; plaster wall painted Roman black 1; flooring Hellenistic 1
Period:		Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:		npd
Grid:		269.08-267.87E, 1018.65-1020.05N
XMin:		267.87
XMax:		269.08
YMin:		1018.65
YMax:		1020.05
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.25-85.32m.
Is Above:		5043
Is Below:		5039
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Heidi Broome-Raines (2007-04-30 to 2007-05-18) Report: Nezi Field 2007 by J. Matthew Harrington and Theodora Kopestonsky (2007-05-21 to 2007-06-08)