| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 75 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Pit fill, bottom layer. | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1100 | |
| Context: | 75 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2007/05/03 | |
| Stratum: | Very soft yellowish brown sandy silt, very poorly sorted. Containing about 20% inclusions, medium pebbles, tile fragments, bone, and a few roots; ash and carbon frags. | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. Bottom slope of the context is slight down to the NThe soil color is very dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | We have opened a new basket in the pit begun with B74 because Billy began to find increasing deposits of carbon/ash. Because the fill is so rich in organic material, we are going to water sieve whatever we do not dry sieve. We began first thing of the morning of 07 May. Bill continued to find tiles. Lydia (who has excenstive experience in such things, see B71 et al.) commented that as this pit deepens, the sides are remaining remarkably vertical. Most pottery coming out is cookware, and there are not a few bones. Currently this seems to be a rubbish pit associated with the clay floor's structure, since the pit is definitely cut into the floor, and was found UNDER the destruction layer (B51). Bill reached a level at which the soft soil he was digging went off in every direction under the cut. Since the cut had disappeared, we closed the basket. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. matte painted, bowl. 5 rims. 2 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)1 rim. ; Fineware. glaze painted III, slipped (1160-1200)1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300)2 rims. 1 handle. 4 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. amphora1 handle. ; Coarseware. matte painted, stamnos. 1 rim. 2 handles. 24 bodysherds. ; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260)1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300)1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325)1 rim. ; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)6 rims. ; Cooking ware. outurned rim, stewpot. 2 rims. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 34 frag(s) 0.22 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 414 frag(s) 4.3 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 84 frag(s) 1.21 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron knife blade incomplete L. 0.061 1; bone pin head as Corinth XII no.2327 preserved L.=0.055 1; bone ovis mandible 2 unid vertebrae cut 4 sus distal phalange 1 ovis astragalus 1 fowl 15 unid ca 20 calcaneus unid 1; iron nail incomplete square shank 1 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 3rd 1/4 13th C. | |
| Grid: | 271-269.9E, 1003.7-1004.9N | |
| XMin: | 269.9 | |
| XMax: | 271 | |
| YMin: | 1003.7 | |
| YMax: | 1004.9 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.77-87m. | |
| Is Above: | 76 | |
| Is Below: | 74 | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lydia Herring, Josh Langseth, Kris Lorenzo (2007-04-09 to 2007-05-18) Image: digital 2007 0142 Image: digital 2007 0143 Image: digital 2007 0144 |
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