| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 697 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Removal of clay and tile layer N of 692 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 697 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/04/10 | |
| Stratum: | Pottery, tile, cobbles, pebbles, bone, plaster, glass, 20-30% inclusions. | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | This is the removal of a clay and tile layer that covers a large portion of the area E of baulk and N of context 692. A coin, #31, was found during excavation. E 256.77, 1009.13, elevation 86.49. 10 April 2012, we started second bucket of pottery. Pass began in SW by baulk and proceeded N, then E. On the E, context is bounded by red clay layer sloping down to W. There is a clear division running E-W between this red clay and a white clay deposit to the N. Beneath the N portion of this context (697), a soil change became apparent, with more and larger stones (cobbles) in a harder matrix. In the center of the bottom of 697 there is a roughly linear area running E-W without large cobbles in softer soil - possibly a robbing trench - not exactly in line with the robbing trench exposed in context 672, but slightly to S. Soil at bottom of 697 in S is again harder with cobbles extending to N border of pit fill 692. 12 April 2012: Plaster inclusions which appeared in this context were also noted in context above (631) in 2009, where the plaster was interpreted as debris from demolition of a wall during the Ottoman Period. 26 April 2012: The northern portion of this context, marked "cobbles" on the top plan, is directly beneath 631 and above 740. Together, these three contexts represent the fill of an early modern robbing trench running E-W. We have, accordingly, changed the final date of 697 from Byzantine (mid 12th c.) to Early Modern (late 18th-early 19th). It should be noted, however, that the S portion of 697 (from ca. 1008 to 1009 N) seems not to have been disturbed by this Early Modern activity, and the pottery date of mid-12th c. should be accepted for this area. The portion to the N (from ca. 1009 to 1010 N), which we had originally identified as the E-W robbing trench, may have been another lens of fill at the edges of the robbing trench, since the S edge of the cut of 740 slopes up and to the S at a noticeable angle (ca. 40 degrees?). This would have made the robbing trench much wider at its top than at the bottom. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. cloche, cl. ves.. 1 rim. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), cup. 1 rim. ; Fineware. pre medieval1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), cup. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 bodysherd. early imit. Ww polychrome | |
| Pottery Summary: | 6 frag(s) 0.04 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 337 frag(s) 9.85 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 55 frag(s) 1.46 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass, clear, green tinge, goblet, mf 7242, 4th c AD, stem, 1; glass, clear, purple tinge, base, 1; glass, clear, yellow tinge, bs, 1 | |
| Period: | Early Modern (1831-1949 AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 18th/early 19th | |
| Grid: | 258.48-255.63E, 1007.87-1010.96N | |
| XMin: | 255.63 | |
| XMax: | 258.48 | |
| YMin: | 1007.87 | |
| YMax: | 1010.96 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.55-86.58m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Rachel McCleery/Sarah Miller (2012-04-03 to 2012-04-20) Coin: 2012 31 |