Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 5560 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Basket | | Name: | | Nezi Field, context 5560 | | Area: | | Nezi Field | | Context Type: | | Surface | | Title: | | Cement on Pebble Floor | | Category: | | Deposit | | Notebook: | | 1101 | | Context: | | 5560 | | Page: | | 0 | | Date: | | 2008/05/20 | | Stratum: | | 5% fine pebbles, all shapes | | Description: | | The soil color is light pinkish white. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clay. | | Notes: | | Deposit 5560 is construction cement sitting on top of the pebble floor that extends southward from wall 5463. The cement deposit is truncated by the pit cut 5557, the robbing trench for wall 71 (N-S), and the foundation trench for the E-W wall 5443. The cement deposit climbs up the south face of Wall 5463, demonstrating that this E-W wall wa in use at the time the cement was deposited on the floor. There are two patches of this cement preserved, though they are not contiguous. They are being excavated together as deposit context 5560. The cement was chipped away from the floor. No pottery was produced by the removal of this deposit. | | Period: | | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | | Chronology: | | npd | | Grid: | | 267.72-267.44E, 1034.76-1035.32N | | XMin: | | 267.44 | | XMax: | | 267.72 | | YMin: | | 1034.76 | | YMax: | | 1035.32 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | Masl: | | 84.8-84.83m. | | References: | | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Jody Cundy and Megan Thompsen (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13)
Image: digital 2008 0119
Image: digital 2008 0120
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