| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | South Stoa, context 578 | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Title: | Compact deposit NE of cut 577 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1110 | |
| Context: | 578 | |
| Date: | 2016/06/03 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2016-053 | |
| Stratum: | 15% angular and subrounded spherical coarse pebbles. Some pottery and few bones. | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the S. The soil color is light brownish yellow. The soil compaction is hard. The soil is well sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | 11.55: Excavation of the deposit started from its NE, by the point where it rests on the bedrock. I covered 577 cut and the wall trenches with plastics so the soil can be collected from themm speeding up the work. Excavation will start using handpicks. 13.30: work ended for the day. The part of the deposit that is close to the cut presents no problems in its excavation. The one by the bedrock in the NE, however, os very confused and will require further and more careful excavation next week. 13.45: After observing carefully the deposit I decided to make a last pass alongside the edge of cut 577 towards NE. This helped to clarify the problem mentioned before: this context was just a layer of hard soil on top of a) a stony layer fill (E and SE, context 582) and b) a brown loose soil deposit (NE, context 594). The later is also the main component of the undercut left of wall 459, so it is expected that despite careful excavation parts of it will be lost due to its fragile situation. 6th of June, 2016: 08.10: Work resumed in the deposit after cleaning of the surface due to the renewal of plastics during the weekend. Excavation will start SW of the deposit by the line from the edge of the cut backwards to minimize the impact of the section. 08.39: The excavation of the deposit continues but most of my doubts are being solved. It seems what I am excavating is the filling of a second cut that shares with most of 577 the bedrock face but turns to the E and runs up to the foundation trench by wall 459. The soil in the deposit is clearly firmer and yellower than the brownish and softer in both sides. 09.11: Excavation of the deposit finished. The cut revealed is shallower and broader than the 577. It seems also to cut in the same single deposit, but assessing this will require the removal of plastics and some cleaning. The proportion of context sieved is, I hope, accurate, but the falling of material from the undercut contaminated soil collected from this context in a plastic. Volumes are however accurate. Two buckets (32 liters) removed. Part lost in collapse. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. LN Grey Ware2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH red slipped10 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH light painted5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN Black-Burnished3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .One with relief decoration; Fineware. EH red slipped and incised1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN Matt painted1 rim. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .One BS with spiral; Fineware. EH black slipped3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 32 frag(s) 0.3 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 21 frag(s) 0.13 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | obsydian flake 1 (saved to lot); chert nodule (?) 1 (saved to lot); sea shell frgt 2 (saved to lot); chert flakes 2 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Early Helladic | |
| Grid: | 349.25-348.4E, 1086.6-1088.55N | |
| XMin: | 348.4 | |
| XMax: | 349.25 | |
| YMin: | 1086.6 | |
| YMax: | 1088.55 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 80.13-80.35m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2016 0539 Image: digital 2016 0548 Image: digital 2016 0549 |
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