Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 7269
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 7269
Area:   Nezi Field
Context Type:   Fill
Title:   Fill
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1104
Context:   7269
Page:   0
Date:   2010/06/16
Stratum:   charcoal, ceramic sherds, bone, angular pebbles, ash, possible degraded mudbricks, ca. 20% inclusions
Description:   The soil color is mixed. The soil compaction is hard. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:   This is a hard layer of soil below floor 7262 in the NW corner of the room NE of the courtyard. The soil is a mixture of blackish, reddish, and yellowish soil, very hard. Some of the patches of red soil might be degraded mudbrick. This layer has revealed what seems to be part of an amphora with a soil fill capped by a rooftile. This will be structure 7270.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. Early Roman4 bodysherds. ; Fineware. AfRS, Form 50. 1 rim. ; Cooking ware. orlo bifido3 rims. ; Fineware. Preroman6 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:   11 frag(s) 0.07 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    111 frag(s) 1.08 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    32 frag(s) 0.33 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   glass clear blue base 2, 1r, 2bs; iron lump 1; lead slag 1
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   NPD
Grid:   272.35-271.45E, 1038.45-1039.84N
XMin:   271.45
XMax:   272.35
YMin:   1038.45
YMax:   1039.84
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   83.41-83.57m.
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2010 by Charlotte Maxwell-Jones (2010-05-31 to 2010-06-18)