Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 551
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 551
Area:   Nezi Field
Context Type:   Fill
Title:   Leveling fill for clay floor
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1103
Context:   551
Page:   0
Date:   2009/05/26
Stratum:   60% inclusions; pottery, fine to coarse pebbles, cobbles, and roof tile.
Description:   Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark pinkish brown. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:   Leveling fill deposit 551 is a lens of sandy silt deposited in the construction of a clay floor that abutted the north-south wall 313. Like the floor above, the leveling fill 551 is truncated to the north by the robbing trench for portions of wall 366 (451) and to the west and south by unknown action.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. ww sgraffito, plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. premedieval4 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:   6 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (17% saved) fineware.
    36 frag(s) 0.35 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    10 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   iron lump 2; glass clear green bs 1; Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; shell patella 1; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 fragment(s). ; Bone- rib of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tooth, incisor of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   12th century
Grid:   265.98-264.82E, 1005.34-1006.55N
XMin:   264.82
XMax:   265.98
YMin:   1005.34
YMax:   1006.55
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   86.93-86.99m.
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Jody Cundy and Dina Boero (2009-06-19 to 2009-06-20)
Coin: 2009 129