Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 5163

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 5163
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Archaeological Cleaning
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1101
Context:		5163
Page:		0
Date:		2008/04/08
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the SW.
Notes:		We are cleaning context 5153, removing disassociated soil and material. Our area is located in North of Nezi. It is framed by the west wall of Room F and the room north of Room F (called W39 in the 1960s excavations, renamed Wall 5218 in our current excavations) but is located east of the room north of Room F and stretching even farther to the north. To the west are the remains of the Turkish Hourse, upon which our site may encroach, even though it is not presently possible to determine this. The west side is framed by steep scarp. On the southeast corner of our area, we are currently exposing, along the steep scarp to the south, a possible clay floor, which does not abut the wall to the east (W39=Wall 5218). On the southwest corner, overlying the sourth wall, we are exposing a tile cluster. The large stone on the end of the south section no longer appears to abut the wall on the southwest (Wall 5215). The tile pile represents a possible destruction layer, and it is bordered by a red soil layer. The wall north of room FW seems to cut through the west wall of room F and the room to the north (that is, Wall 5216 seems to cut through Wall 5218), which defines the east part of our area. A white clay patch on the northern section of the area was removed. In the southern portion of the room, there are red bits of possible mudbrick along with bits of charcoal. North of the point at which the wall north of the room north of Room F intrudes (that is Wall 5216), a patch of yellowish clay-like material lies along the west wall of the room north of Room F (Wall 5218, the eastern limit of our area). It is similar to the soil on the southeast part of our area. We are thoroughly cleaning them and photographing them. On April 9, we continue the archaeological cleaning. Today we scrape back the scarp on the west side of the context to the north of the rock pile located at 1024.50. This was cleaned for c.l. 20m to the West to c. 261.80 and to c. 1030 to the north. This exposed part of the wall of the Turkish house (Wall 5217). This may be the wall partially removed in 1963, making this soil modern backfill. Exposed with this was a hole in the rubble near where the street would have come through. From the small bit exposed it is only possible to guess but one of the stones covering the hole looks like a paving stone, and the cl. 5 deep hole may be a drain. The N-S Wall in the Turkish house (Wall 5217) is of rubble and some tile up to c. 1025.80. At this point and to the north of it, the wall becomes made of larger squared blocks. A foundation trench of 0.35m runs in the soil to the west of the wall. Inside the trench the soil is much darker and grayer than the redder soil to the west. The wall appears to end at c. 1028 N and then continues after a break of 1.15m. It continues to the the wall at c. 1030.70N. Cleaning was stopped at this point. Also of not is ea thin line of darker soil along the west scarp, south of the rock pile. This may be part of a foundation trench associated with the Turkish house wall, which was removed. Revised Interpretation: The workmen rebuilt part of the Turkish House wall running N-S (Wall 5217) for presentation to the public. This happened between: 261.958E 262.452E 261.992 E 262.701E 1027.767N 1027.820N 1030.109N 1029.883N 84.986 El. 85.034 El. 84.740El 84.824El.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. premedieval27 bodysherds. ; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), pitcher. ; Coarseware. amphora. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:		33 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		333 frag(s) 4.5 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		132 frag(s) 1.2 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		tessera 1; bronze and iron road metal 2; glass green 1 purple 1; lamps imitation Attic handles 2 shoulder 1; iron nail square shank 6; glass white 1 yellow 1 black 3 green 4, incl. 1 rim as Harden 636 colorless 18, incl. 1 knob or toe as MF 69-286a, colorless with blue threads 1, as Harden 579?; revetment porphyry 1 unid 1; Wall Plaster red 2 black 2 unid 1; bronze lump 9; bone unidentified 3; shell cockle 1; shell unid 2
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		late thirteenth
Grid:		265.75-262.9E, 1019.7-1027.4N
XMin:		262.9
XMax:		265.75
YMin:		1019.7
YMax:		1027.4
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.93-85.56m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Jody Cundy and Megan Thompsen (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Matthew J. Baumann and Nathanael J. Andrade (2008-04-07 to 2008-04-23) Images (5) Coin: 2008 2 Coin: 2008 3 Coin: 2008 4