Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 1087

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 1087
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Pit fill, 3rd from top, NE corner unit 1
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1112
Context:		1087
Date:		2017/5/8
Lot:		Context 1087
Stratum:		Inclusions include ceramics, bone, pieces of crumbling cement/lime, glass, tile, iron, bronze ring. Average tile sizes - L:14 cm; W: 10cm.
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the S. The soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is silty sand.
Notes:		Two closing elevations values were taken - 85.084 (min.); 84.881 (max. depth, in south of context). East boundary is artificial due to contamination from modern wall reconstruction. Several more concrete layers visible in wall of pit cut. Context was closed at discovery hard packed clay level below 1087. It was initially proposed that the clay level was related to the mudbrick clay structure in area west of the NE unpaved area of unit 1, and that we had reached an intact floor level below the pit that may have stretched across entire section. Given the undulations in the layer and the nature of the inclusions, it was determined that this was not a floor layer, but another pit dump deposit.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. pre medieval7 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted I, slipped (1110-1130), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .no overglaze; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Frankish incised, bowl. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. 12th c.1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glossy ware, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slip and glaze painted, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100)13 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matte painted, amphora. 20 rims. 26 handles. 139 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matte painted, storage jar. 5 rims. 12 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .plastic pie crusting on body; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)1 rim. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		29 frag(s) 0.55 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		1131 frag(s) 17.99 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
		23 frag(s) 0.26 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		Glass clear light yellowish green, bs1 (saved to lot); Iron nail square shaft 3, (two missing heads) (saved to lot); Quartzite greyish white stone biface preform 1 (L.0.12, Th.max. 0.018, Th. min. 0.01); Iron nail round shaft 3 (one missing head) (saved to lot)
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		14th c. AD
Grid:		114.858-113.998E, 1041.152-1042.838N
XMin:		113.998
XMax:		114.858
YMin:		1041.152
YMax:		1042.838
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.04-85.24m.
References:		Object: C 1947 821 Object: MF 2017 10