Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 708
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 708
Area:   Nezi Field
Title:   Hard layer of large fill
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1106
Context:   708
Page:   0
Date:   2012/04/11
Stratum:   25% inclusions. Ceramic, tile, fine and medium pebbles soubrounded and spherical, charcoal
Description:   Top slope of the context is slight down to the SE. The soil color is dark brownish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand.
Notes:   We excavated the harder crust, expecting it to overlay 690. We are dry sieving 10% of the context in order to maintain a steady pace through the room's fills while still retaining smaller material that will be helpful for dating the fill layers.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), kettle. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), chafing dish. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), pedestalled plate. 1 rim. ; Fineware. premedieval7 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:   13 frag(s) 0.4 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    355 frag(s) 6.6 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    67 frag(s) 1.1 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   bone, pin, 1; iron, implement, 1; iron, lumps, 3
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:   12th c
Grid:   262.09-259.31E, 1005.26-1006.26N
XMin:   259.31
XMax:   262.09
YMin:   1005.26
YMax:   1006.26
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   86.42-86.7m.
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Larkin Kennedy, Angele Rosenberg-Dimitracopoulou (2012-04-03 to 2012-04-20)