| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 744 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Removal of Fill of E-W Robbing Trench | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 744 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/04/20 | |
| Stratum: | pottery, tiles, cobbles ~30 cm, bones, iron, glass. Inclusions ~30% | |
| Description: | The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | This is the further removal of the fill of an E-W robbing trench moving further east from context 740. This fill has more tiles than stones, while in 740 there were more stones than tiles. Large stone appeared ca. 30 cm. W of N-S robbing trench (728), along S edge of context. Athanasis thinks it may be part of the original E-W wall. Further excavation of 744 is confirming this hypothesis; stones are in line w/ large stone W of wall 540 (discovered in context 672). Wall ends to W at approx. the same elevation and coordinates as fill w/ stones (740) excavated to W. To E, wall is overlaid by 745, a blacker soil w/ more tiles. The matrix surrounding the stones of the wall itself more red in color. 24 April 2012: Examination of 2009 notebooks showed a N-S wall (470) removed in 2009 at coordinates 258 to 258.5 E, from 1007 to 1008 N. This wall may correspond to a N-S wall lower down forming a corner with the E-W wall discovered in 744. Traces of this lower N-S wall may be visible in the scarp from foundation trench 684. 26 April 2012: Perusal of the 2009 notebooks has shown that context 624 above (above 723, 732, 744, 745) ran along this E-W robbing trench, stopping almost exactly over the preserved western end of the E-W wall on one side, and slightly east of the current eastern limit of 745 on the other. Pottery for 724 was read as 12th c. npd. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. pre medieval2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. matte painted, pitcher. 2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. gunsenin III amphora (1200-1300)1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. late champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1200-1225), plate. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 4 frag(s) 0.05 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 80 frag(s) 2.05 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 21 frag(s) 0.27 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass, clear, colorless, yellow tinge, goblet, base, 1; iron, nail, 1; iron, slag, 1 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | mid 13th | |
| Grid: | 258.59-257E, 1010.74N | |
| XMin: | 257 | |
| XMax: | 258.59 | |
| YMax: | 1010.74 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.55m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Rachel McCleery/Sarah Miller (2012-04-03 to 2012-04-20) |