Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 550
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 550
Area:   Nezi Field
Context Type:   Surface
Title:   Clay floor abutting wall 332 and structure 452
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1103
Context:   550
Page:   0
Date:   2009/05/26
Stratum:   15% inclusions; pottery and bone
Description:   Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light brownish pink. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:   Deposit context 550 is a clay floor and its substrata. It abuts the north face of structure 452 and east face of wall 332 (cut 451). Its truncated to the east and south by unknown action. The composition and top elevation are similar to the clay floor to the east that abutted wall 313 and was excavated as deposit context 549. It was intended to remove only the top of the surface for water sieving, but the pick man proceeded to the substratum of the floor immediately, taking both the interface and the matrix together. A sample was sent for water sieving.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. early champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1170-1200), unid plate. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. glaze painted I/II, slipped (1130-1150), bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:   4 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    16 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    3 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   Glass clear bluish bs 1, colorless bs 1
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   first half 13th
Grid:   264.21-262.2E, 1005.42-1006.11N
XMin:   262.2
XMax:   264.21
YMin:   1005.42
YMax:   1006.11
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   86.92-87.04m.
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Jody Cundy and Dina Boero (2009-06-19 to 2009-06-20)