Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 9

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 9
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Context Type:		deposit
Title:		Lime Pit residue E. of Early Modern Wall
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1108
Context:		9
Date:		2014/04/08
Stratum:		Above reflects an attempt to describe hardened lime residue.
Description:		The soil color is light greyish white. The soil compaction is stongly cemented. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is mixed- see description.
Notes:		On 8/4/14 we decided to remove the lime residue in the lime pit in the E. side of the unexcavated baulk W. of room 5 and NW of the church narthex in unit 2. The size and hardness of the lime pieces made sieving impractical. We decided to save a box of lime pieces in case future researchers wished to chemically analyze them. This was excavated as a deposit rather than a structure because it was the result of a chemical process, not a purpose-built structure. At bottom, lime residue was approximately .81m in depty. With the removal of the lime residue, work can begin on the rest of the baulk. Only a portion of lime residue could be removed, the rest either having been removed by excavations of room 5 (NB 873, 48-49) or being covered by a tree to the north of the excavated area. The extent of lime residue is visible in the scarp and is indicated on the top plan.
Context Artifacts:		lime, fragments, 17
Period:		Early Modern (1831-1949 AD)
Chronology:		Ca. 1930
Grid:		114.4-113.25E, 1079.1-1088.4N
XMin:		113.25
XMax:		114.4
YMin:		1079.1
YMax:		1088.4
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.53-86.34m.
References:		Image: digital 2014 0006 Image: digital 2014 0007