Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 5867

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 5867
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Fill
Title:		dumped fill
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1101
Context:		5867
Page:		0
Date:		2008/06/11
Stratum:		20% inclusions: small angular cobbles, medium angular cobbles, small and large tile fragments, small angular pebbles
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		The last time this context was excavated was when 5644 was dug, in which the pickman noticed a distinction between the stratum to the N (later excavated as 5793), and this soil packet. We reconstructed 5793 as fill within a robbing trench (# 5859) which appeared to hook E ward just to the N of this context. However, this cut as it was defined did not prove to continue in a regular way, and the area to the N of this context does not appear to have been part of the robbing event, if there was one. We had stopped excavating here in order to excavate the fills of the robbing trenches 5791, 5859, and the E-W cut 5551. But we have now returned to this layer of fill because it appears to overlie or cut a neighboring stratum of fill to the W that goes below the white plastered floor. We are able to excavate this context stratigraphically because it does not appear to ever have been covered by the white plastered floor. The next contexts will also involve exploration to the E, to ensure that the line that we have identified for the robbing trench is accurate. At the end of this context, we defined a N-S running cut that may reflect a different line for the Robbing Trench 5859 as we have currently defined it. The same line, which shows soil cutting away toward the E, has been distinguished in the exposed soil to the N (last excavated as part of 5798). Since we only have an arbitrary edge for the cut, we plan to remove soil to the E, which makes the bottom of the robbing trench for Wall 5473. This has not been cleaned or excavated for a long time (1960s), and may obscure the continuation of the putative line of the robbing trench. Following the excavation of neighboring context, martyr 5870, we did not find a line further E; however, there does appear to be an E limit to the cut that also lay beneath Context 5867, which simply did not show up right away.
Context Pottery:		Coarseware. pitcher. 1 handle. ; Fineware. prefrankish10 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270), stewpot. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. triangular rim amphora (1100-1260), amphora. 1 rim. ; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. late protogeometric, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. medieval4 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:		14 frag(s) 0.05 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		227 frag(s) 1.89 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		34 frag(s) 0.24 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		lead flat strip 1; glass clear greenish lamp toe with pontil mark, as Jalame 394, 1; wall plaster yellow painted 1; glass clear greenish thickened rim 1, colorless bs 1; iron hinge 1; glass clear colorless diam. 0.06 rim 1
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		3rd quarter of the 13th century
Grid:		265.65-264.5E, 1030.5-1032.1N
XMin:		264.5
XMax:		265.65
YMin:		1030.5
YMax:		1032.1
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.67-84.78m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Sarah Lima (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13)