| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 652 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Cleaning of wall 420 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 652 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/04/04 | |
| Stratum: | Inclusions: small clay pellets, small stones, small tile fragments, bones, glass, iron - 15% | |
| Description: | The soil color is light greyish white. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is moderately sorted. It is silty clay. | |
| Notes: | Your humble area supervisors, being new at the Single Context Open Area Excavation game, erred initially in approaching this area. Wall 420 formed one of the strongest orienting features in this entire area. When the time came to clean it, we assigned that cleaning the context number 420. This is an obvious error and has been amended to the context number you see before you. In any case, it might be a provident time to speak briefly about the orienting effect of wall 420. The wall was cut quite deeply into its surrounding contexts, and even two weeks after its removal, still divides the region into northern and southern areas. Its remnants are nearly all gone now, but the wall itself, including the material cleaned from it in this cleaning operation, no doubt contained a great number of contexts across the range of layers cut. Since many other contexts and features are discussed in relation to the position of this wall, the wall can in turn be oriented in relation to them. It began at wall 540 and ran just to the south of pit 430, while passing well to the north of apse 676, before continuing to the north of pit 193 and tapering out where it was cut by the much later pit deposit of 634. Under its foundations was a hard packed surface, probably due to the weight of the wall itself. Multiple soil contexts were exposed, including 667,715, 717. Note that this deposit was mistakenly given the context number 'Structure 420' instead of 'Deposit 652' when opened on 3 April 2012. Structure 420 refers rather to the removal of the wall and its foundations on 4-5 April 2012. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. sgraffito I, slipped painted (1160-1180), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. Medieval, Cooking pot. 3 handles. ; Cooking ware. Medieval, cloche lid. 2 rims. ; Fineware. Pre-Medieval1 bodysherd. ; Plainware. Mid-Byz, amphora. 1 rim. 3 handles. 9 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Blue frit, bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Plainware. plate. 1 rim. pedestaled | |
| Pottery Summary: | 3 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 93 frag(s) 1.48 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 15 frag(s) 0.26 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron, lump, 2; bone ovid tooth 1, humerus 1; bone, lepus pelvis 1; iron, nail, 1; glass clear blue, bs 1 | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Mid 12th c. | |
| Grid: | 275.37-264.93E, 1010.48-1011.66N | |
| XMin: | 264.93 | |
| XMax: | 275.37 | |
| YMin: | 1010.48 | |
| YMax: | 1011.66 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 87.06-87.16m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Andrew Connor and Simon Oswald (2012-04-03 to 2012-04-20) |