Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 890

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 890
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Continuation of Frankish pit C848
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1106
Context:		890
Page:		0
Date:		2012/06/07
Lot:		Lot 2012-048
Stratum:		Pottery, tile cobbles, pebbles, iron, glass, bone, shell, carbon
Description:		The soil color is light brownish grey. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:		This is another layer of fill in pit C848 (labeled 71 in 2007). Panos is beginning with a shallow cleaning pass, since the context has lain open and neglected for several weeks. The pit was last excavated as 821 in session 2, until a) the soil changed, and b) the pit had gotten much deeper than the rest of the trench. We were initially screening 100%, but after discussion with Guy and examination of material being recovered from trench and sieve, we are switching to 20%. Context left open at end of day. 8 June 2012: Found fragment of prunted glass beaker in sieve; also nail head. Also a tiny bronze half-domed-shaped object - setting for a stone? As discussed yesterday afternoon at end of context 886, we will now be moving back to the N side of the trench, W of wall 866, because the fill here continues to an unknown depth. (This is at least the 5th time this pit has been considered too deep or inconvenient to continue digging; if future teams wish to complete its excavation, considerable work will need to be done first in its vicinity, as the bottom of the pit is now well over a meter below the lowest adjacent surface and perhaps 2 meters below the top of wall 616 to its NE. The sides of the pit continue to be slightly undercut in all directions, so that N, S, E, and W coordinates are fairly approximate (using measuring tape from point taken near center). Fair quantity bone recovered (1 bucket, large pieces) and pottery (3 buckets). Another bucket of pottery from sieve.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. veneto, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .rouletted; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 2 rims. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matte painted, pitcher. 1 rim. tref mo; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), pitcher. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matte painted, stamnos. 2 rims. 13 handles. 60 bodysherds. ; Fineware. veneto, bowl. 1 rim. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slip painted, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. maiolica, bowl. 3 rims. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .Brindisi; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 2 rims. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matte painted, bowl. 4 rims. 4 bodysherds. ; Fineware. pre-Byzantine23 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 4 rims. 8 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. early Frankish15 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), bowl. 3 rims. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. bowl. 14 rims. ; Fineware. glaze painted no overglaze, bowl. 2 rims. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matte painted, pilgrim flask. ; Fineware. slip and glaze painted, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. archaic maiolica, slipped (1270-1325), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. 12th c.77 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. RMR, slipped (1275-1325), bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. maiolica, plate. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .Brindisi
Pottery Summary:		182 frag(s) 1.42 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		1086 frag(s) 12 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		175 frag(s) 1.57 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		iron, bloom?, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, yellow, base, 1 (saved to lot); iron, nail, shaft, rectangular shaft, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, green, bs, 2 (saved to lot); marble, chunk, lapis lacedamonius, 1 (saved to lot); iron, nail?, rectangular shaft, 2 (saved to lot); iron, nail, head, round shaft?, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, diam. 0.009, thickness 0.003, circular tab, bs, 1 (saved to lot); iron, nail head?, 1 (saved to lot); iron, convex on one side, flat on other side, one edge curved, one edge flat, preserved diam. 0.085, thickness 0.034 before cleaning, possibly top and bottom were folded and originally approx. 0.012 thick, 1 (saved to lot); iron, hook, 2 joining fragments, L. 0.055, Diam. Of shaft before cleaning 0.006, Diam. Of hook 0.005, 1 (saved to lot); mosaic, multicolored tiny pebbles, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, light blue tinge, bs, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, tubular ring foot, restored diam. 0.009, base, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, greenish blue, restored diam. 0.008, rim, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, opaque patina, prunted beaker, bs, 1 (saved to lot); iron, hook, shaft narrows towards hook, Diam. Of shaft at widest point before cleaning 0.013, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, folded, added blue at top and bottom of fold on concave side, strip, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, rim, 2 (saved to lot); iron, slag?, 1 (saved to lot); bone, handle, from sheep/goat tibia, sawn proximal end preserved, band of incised decoration 0.015 wide w/ 3 sets of 9 parallel strokes alternating between 45 + 135 degrees to form chevron design, single line as border on either side, 1 (saved to lot); marble, schisty white, 2 (saved to lot); iron, nail, shaft, rectangular shaft, 2 joining fragments, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, bs, 8 (saved to lot); marble, white with grey, 4 (saved to lot); flint chip, red, 1 (saved to lot); wood carbon, 3 (saved to lot); wall plaster, 9 (saved to lot)
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		1290-1300
Grid:		268.52-266.52E, 1005.88-1007.93N
XMin:		266.52
XMax:		268.52
YMin:		1005.88
YMax:		1007.93
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.33m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Kyle Mahoney and Rachel McCleery (2012-05-28 to 2012-06-15)