Corinth Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 663
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Temple E, Southeast, context 663
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Title:   Possible Robbing Trench by W Wall of Room 9
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1109
Context:   663
Date:   2015/05/05
Stratum:   35% with a few angular, spherical cobbles, a plain green Frankish glazed sherd, some rounded spherical coarse pebbles.
Description:   The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is hard. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:   Irregular rectangular trench, possibly previously dug and robbed as it is adjacent to a nearby robbing trench on the other side of a wall. Finds include at least one plain glazed Frankish sherd, but mostly consists of pebbles and several large stones.
Coin 75, from sieve, Byzantine, Manuel I
Photo: 548
Later Note: This irregularly shaped context may have been part of the already excavated (1996) robbing trench or evidence of other robbing - related activity of Wall 720
02/06/2015 (L Kennedy):
Animal bones: 0.01 kg, all thrown.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. late painted sgraffito, bowl. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:   4 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    20 frag(s) 0.21 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    5 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   Late 13th-Early 14th century
Grid:   128.3-127.45E, 1081.95-1083.75N
XMin:   127.45
XMax:   128.3
YMin:   1081.95
YMax:   1083.75
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   84.79-84.9m.
References:   Image: digital 2015 0548
Coin: 2015 75