Corinth Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 604
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Temple E, Southeast, context 604
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Title:   Fill of Grave 2015-1
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1109
Context:   604
Date:   2015/04/22
Stratum:   Inclusions: bone, pottery, stones (pebble-sized), tile, charcoal (nickel-sized and smaller).
Description:   Top slope of the context is slight down to the S. The soil color is light brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is moderately sorted. It is silty clay.
Notes:   Opening Elevation:
E: 125.545
N: 1076.019
Z: 84.452
The grave seems to have been disturbed thoroughly by Grave 2014-09. Thanassis and Kostas have been working to detail the skeleton (context 605) all morning. The skeleton is missing head, pelvis, most of riht arm and hand. I will sketch it and the cut as 1:20 once detailing is done.
Grave pulled in the afternoon.
02/06/2015 (L Kennedy):
Animal bones: very fragmentary, few identifiable to sheep/goat, a few calcined, 0.05 kg, all thrown.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. preroman4 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Frankish sgraffito, plate. 1 rim. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120)1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:   8 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    72 frag(s) 0.45 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    5 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   bronze crochet hook 2, as MF-5808; glass clear green bs 1, colorless rim 1, bs 1; marble triangular floor slab or mosaic tessera (L. 0.029, W. 0.025, Th. 0.012) 1; iron nail square shank 1, round shank 1
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   mid-13th c.
Grid:   126.5-125E, 1075.65-1076.35N
XMin:   125
XMax:   126.5
YMin:   1075.65
YMax:   1076.35
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   84.363-84.452m.
References:   Image: digital 2015 0414
Image: digital 2015 0415