Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 6555

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 6555
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Fill
Title:		fill slumped around pit cut
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1103
Context:		6555
Page:		0
Date:		2009/06/02
Lot:		Lot 2009-069
Stratum:		15%: tile, cobbles, ceramics
Description:		The soil color is light pinkish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		We moved to excavate here after noticing a recurrent line in th etwo storage pit south-facing scarps that showed a straight line running east-west; the cut in section was mirrored by a cut in plan, visible in the bottom of foundation trench 6427 (after excavation of 6452) and also in contexts revealed by 6540. As we began excavating the soft patch north of storage pit cut 6380, we revealed more of the line of the cut in plan, running east-west into the eastern wall 5483. AS far as this fill's appearance and its ostensible cutting of the context with tiles directly to its north, it could represent a robbing event for a previously-identified wall, #6157, truncated by robbing trench cut 6381. This wall, as we see it, would have run north-wouth and met with a second east-west wall section for which we have no proof, with the exception of our putative robbing trench cut. This would fit with the evidence that we have for the robbing trench going most, but not all the way, across the room- stopping ca. 1.0 m west of north-south wall 5483. We can't take these cuts any further until we excavate some soils that are overlyng the cut as it appears in the western section; it would appear that what we've seen in plan so far represents slumping events rather than the actual top of the cut. We'll get to it after those strata are removed. POST-EXCAVATION NOTE, 15-06-09, S.L.: Contexts 6663 and 6649, at least one of which underlies this context, were found to contain two joining coarse incised ware body fragments of the Frankish period, dating to the mid-13th century. These sherds will stratigraphically change the dates of every context that lies above them by as much as two centuries, of which this context is one. Until it is decided whether there is some other reason that this discrepancy might have occurred (e.g., these contexts need to be situated in a different place on the Harris Matrix), the dates will remain as they have been assigned on the basis of pottery/stratigraphy prior to discovering this discrepancy.
Context Pottery:		Coarseware. amphora. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. jug. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		1 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		14 frag(s) 0.68 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
		4 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Period:		Byzantine
Chronology:		12th century
Grid:		270.75-268.1E, 1025.08-1026.35N
XMin:		268.1
XMax:		270.75
YMin:		1025.08
YMax:		1026.35
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.38-84.42m.
References:		Coin: 2009 169