| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 13 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | General fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1100 | |
| Context: | 13 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2007/04/16 | |
| Stratum: | Inclusions ca. 30%: ceramic frags. (pottery and tile), stones ranging from coarse pebbles to cobbles and rounded to angular, shells, bone, and roots. Higher sand content than basket above (B3). Forms ball in hand but only with great pressure. Rougher t | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the NE. Bottom slope of the context is slight down to the NEThe soil color is mixed. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Slope degree TOP (cont.): Slope is very slight. Slope degree BOTTOM (cont.): Slope is very slight. Change (cont.): As B13 overlies four different deposits, the change is different according to B13's relationship with each deposit. The change is sharp above the hard white surface (Bxx), but is clear above the hard deposit that is a yellowish brown (B42), and diffuse (or maybe clear) above the two deposits that are soft and blackish brown (B28 and B40). Edge (cont.): Broken because the top surfaces of the deposits below do not form an even slope, they appear as a series of ridges descending to the E. EXCAVATION NOTES: Large root pit for wild plant along E-W wall not excavated separately. B13 is visible in N scarp that was created by earlier excavations in area N of Nezi field excavations. Also visible is white context appearing below B13, especially at the N edge for now. We can see several different sequential contexts in the scarp and are digging them N of the E-W wall. Top layer in scarp looks reddish-brown, then follows the white deposit, then a layer of tiles, then a pinkish clay floor surface (see photograph 2007-0015). The tiles end abruptly before the W. end of the excavation area, suggesting that they are maybe inside a room or maybe there was a robbing trench at the W end of the tiles [later note - this is indeed the case, the robbing trench excavated as B52]. Below the floor surface there may be a pit {these last two suggestions are the ideas of Guy Sanders}. The presence of a pit is suggested because the masons' wasps have exploited only this specific area of the scarp (they like looser soil). The concrete foundations of the modern chain-link fence cut into B13 but not to the bottom of this deposit. There is no sign of a construction trench for the E-W wall on its north face; thus B13 probably post-dates the construction of the wall. A potential new stone feature is appearing in the NE of B13. Four to five stones lie in extremely close proximity--unlike anywhere else in basket--and there is some darker soil nearby to the W. (esp. to the NW). Perhaps a wall? Four W.-most concrete supports removed on morning of the 19th of April before resuming excavation of B13. Broken up iwith sledge hammers upon removal and debris then cleared away. Their removal destroyed the parts of the E-W wall they were cemented onto. G. Sanders has called B13 a "humus layer," as is it rich with organic material and decomposed organic material. Preliminary observations on deposits below B13, before their excavation: There appear to be five deposits and two features appearing: 1) The first feature is a possible wall stub(?) projecting N from the E-W wall ca. 267.40E. May connect to architecture in area excavated previously by Robinson in the 1960s (appears to be in-line with upright rectangular block still in situ immediately north of our excavation area). It is approximately 20 cm wide and 45 cm long. Projecting from its NE corner is another rectangular arrangement of stones that may or may not be in situ as part of same grouping (may also perhaps have fallen off top of the possible wall stub). [Later note: this was not a wall but cobbles and boulders in the fill of B42]. There are more stones to the NW (indicated by oval on bottom plan of B13) that may or may not be associated. 2) The second feature, in the NE of the area revealed by the removal of B13, is a cluster of five stones in vaguely circular arrangement; approximately 273E, 1012.50N. The stones are part of a very soft deposit that is a mix of different colors; very dk blackish brown, dk reddish brown, ranging to areas that are more orange and/or lighter. [Later note: this excavated with B28]. 3) To the S and W of the deposit 2 is another that is hard to the trowl and lighter in color, a yellowish brown. There are some areas that are somewhat softer and darker, and some streaks that are clay-like. It seems to be churned around ('katameno' according to the pickman, Kleomenes). 4) In the SW corner of the area revealed by the removal of B13, is another soft and blackish brown deposit. (This is the deposit in which the wall stub(?) sits). 5) Finally, at the very N edge of the scarp, ca. 268E and ca. 273E, are two areas of very hard white deposit/surface. The boundaries between the deposits are various--that between B42 and B40 is diffuse, that between B42 and the hard white deposit is usually sharp, that between B42 and B28 is clear, and that between the hard white deposit and B28 is sharp. Questions to resolve include whether the softer deposits are the same as B13, and the relationships of the possible features to the deposits. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. glazed cooking1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. pre-modern 34; Fineware. kutahia1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. grottaglie2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. decal ware porcelain1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. true porcelain1 rim. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 39 frag(s) 0.58 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 144 frag(s) 2.82 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 23 frag(s) 0.21 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron nail incomplete L. 0.082 Th. 0.008 square shank round head 1; iron nail complete L. 0.060 Th. 0.004 square shank round head 1; iron strap frag. Incomplete L. 0.080 W. 0.038 Th. 0.003 1; iron nail incomplete head missing L. 0.098 W. 0.005 Th. 0.002 tapering rectuangular shank 1; iron nail complete L. 0.087 Th. 0.005 square shank round head 1; iron nail complete L. 0.058 Th. 0.004 square shank round head 1; iron nail incomplete missing most of head L. 0.049 Th. 0.003 square shank round head 1; glass translucent colorless L. 0.024 avg. W. 0.090 Th. 0.002 bs 1; iron nail incomplete L. 0.081 Th. 0.005 bent square shank 1; iron nail incomplete head missing L. 0.129 max Th. 0.007 min Th. 0.004 tapering square shank 1; bone unid 15; iron nail incomplete L. 0.051 Th. 0.006 square shank round head 1; glass clear olive green L. 0.026 W. 0.026 Th. 0.002 bs 1 clear pine green air bubbles L. 0.025 W. 0.019 Th. 0.006 bs 1 clear dk olive green L. 0.051 W. 0.024 Th. 0.006 bs 1 clear light green L. 0.026 W. 0.023 Th. 0.004 bs 1 | |
| Period: | Early Modern (1831-1949 AD) | |
| Chronology: | ca. 1850-1900 | |
| Grid: | 274.9-263E, 1010.04-1013.85N | |
| XMin: | 263 | |
| XMax: | 274.9 | |
| YMin: | 1010.04 | |
| YMax: | 1013.85 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 87.11-88.97m. | |
| Is Above: | 40 | |
| Is Below: | 3 | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lydia Herring, Josh Langseth, Kris Lorenzo (2007-04-09 to 2007-05-18) Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lydia Herring, Josh Langseth, Kris Lorenzo (2007-04-09 to 2007-04-27) Image: digital 2007 0019 Image: digital 2007 0020 Coin: 2007 47 Coin: 2007 54 |
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