Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 1078

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 1078
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Reddish deposit east of C870 and N of S945
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1107
Context:		1078
Page:		0
Date:		2013/04/17
Stratum:		25%- tile, medium pebble, ceramic sherds
Description:		Top slope of the context is moderate down to the NW. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand.
Notes:		This context is a large fill to the east of pit 870. We are excavating it in order to understand Late Roman activity in the area. Although we are excavating only the reddish brown soil in the area between pit 870 and the hearth, the same soil continues to the east, all the way to the edge of the pink excavation area, up to context 1067, excavated by the pink team. We created an arbitrary division in order to remove this fill before the heath which lies on top of the continuation of this soil to the east, so that we could proceed with excavating layers below and to the west of this layer while waiting for the hearth to be drawn so it could be removed. Thus, the hearth lies on top of the continuation of this layer and cut 845 was cut into it as wll. The soil included broken tile, cobbles, ceramics, bone, glass, and coin 2013-83. Much of the context seems to be rainwash. The men have extended the context to the north to remove the rainwash. There, the soil, is more gray. Ultimately, we believe the men may have removed two layers in a single context here. The layer at the top, which we began with, was very compact and had numerous small inclusions of ceramic sherds and pebbles. That layer runs under the hearth and appears to be cut by cut 845. The softer layer, which is lower and was excavated here in the northern part of the context, seems to run under the layer below the hearth and is not equal to it. It appears to continue under the layer below the hearth to the east. At the bottom of this context, we found a layer with many charcoal inclusions (at the south) and a dark yellowish brown layer which may fill an E-W robbing trench south of wall 918 (at the north).
Context Pottery:		Fineware. AfRS form 59b1 rim. ; Fineware. Attic bowl white meander painting1 rim. ; Cooking ware. cloche lid1 rim. ; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)1 rim. ; Fineware. early roman11 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. Late Roman amphora 21 handle. ; Coarseware. mid Byzantine pitcher?1 handle. ; Fineware. preroman28 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. cooking pot as Hesperia 2005 #2-381 rim. ; Fineware. unidentified red slip, bowl. 1 rim. INV
Pottery Summary:		42 frag(s) 0.34 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		259 frag(s) 6.17 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		72 frag(s) 1.12 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass clear colorless, tubular base 2 joining (like Corinth XII #634 (MF 8287) 2nd century); lamp, Attic, post-glazing, shoulder, 1; bronze, lump, 3; iron, nail, large, square shank, 1; wall plaster, green and white, 1; iron, lump, 1; stone, tessera, white, 1, tan, 1; iron, hook, 2; glass clear pale green, bs 4; bone, burned 2; slag, bronze and iron?, 1; glass clear colorless, bs 4; glass clear greenish blue, bs 4; wall plaster, red, 1; glass light brown, bs 1
Period:		Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:		2nd half of the 5th c. CE
Grid:		261.46-260.58E, 1011.5-1012.33N
XMin:		260.58
XMax:		261.46
YMin:		1011.5
YMax:		1012.33
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.26-85.82m.
References:		Object: C 2013 6 Coin: 2013 84