Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 60

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 60
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		2nd fill in trench west of wall 51
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1108
Context:		60
Date:		2014/04/11
Stratum:		2-5% small angular pebbles and small round pebbles, ceramics sherds, roots
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark brownish brown. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		Our pickman thought the soil deeper in the trench was getting lighter, though to us it appears darker. He suggested the supper soil (Deposit 57) may be excavation backfill and the lower layer (Deposit 60) unexcavated. We have found records of excavations up to the top of 57 (NB 839 B.37, pg 101-2) but not beyond. The soil actually seems darker but still has similar color. It is more moist and a little sover and has fewer inclusions than 57. Excavations revealed more the western face of Wal 51. The workman came down on a course of roughly hewn or possibly uncut large stones some of which appear to be overliad by wall 51. It appears we have a foundation trench. The wall and the trench are truncated on N and S by what are most likely modern excavation pits. Finds collected include glass (1 bag), bone (1 bag), metal (1 box) and COIN 2014-17 (98.70, 1068.99, 85.75). Later notes (12/4/14) SMK: It should be noted that at the soil change between 57 and 60, there was a road surface that extends into the trench from the west. Since this road was clearly cut and the soil changed at this level, it is possible that we are now in the fill of the original foundation trench. Later notes (14/4/14) SMK: The stones at the bottom of 60 may be the 1st fill of the foundation trench or part of an earlier structure. Later notes [27-4-14] JLL: The coin found in 60, 2014-17, is Frankish, which means that the upper level of fill, 57, cannot be Byzantine. We are treating the ceramics of both levels of fill as survivors and equating 57 and 60, at a Frankish date.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. Roman3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Pre-Roman16 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. stew pot1 handle. Byzantine
Pottery Summary:		16 frag(s) 0.05 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		183 frag(s) 1.49 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		66 frag(s) 0.3 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass clear colorless, bottle mouth with single trail, as Jalame cat 265, rim, 1; glass clear colorless, tubular ring foot, 1; bone, 1; iron, sheet with hole, 1; bronze, sheet, 1; iron, lump, 3; iron, nail, square shank, 3, head with shank, 3; glass clear colorless, bs, 1
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		13th century
Grid:		98.89-98.51E, 1068.76-1073.23N
XMin:		98.51
XMax:		98.89
YMin:		1068.76
YMax:		1073.23
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.58-85.84m.
References:		Image: digital 2014 0068 Image: digital 2014 0069 Coin: 2014 17