| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 14 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Dumped fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1100 | |
| Context: | 14 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2007/04/17 | |
| Stratum: | Inclusions 20%: ceramic frags. (pottery and two types differently fired tile), bone, roots (one large stump at very NE corner growing into scarp), stones ranging from medium pebbles to boulders and rounded to angular, shells, marble frags, beads of cement | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. Bottom slope of the context is slight down to the NThe soil color is dark pinkish brown. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Slope degree (cont.): Bottom slope is moderate to the E., with also a slight slope to the N. at the eastern end of the excavation area. Formation (cont.): E-W wall, along with, perhaps, B5. It could also be that cobbles (and other parts of context) were perhaps thrown over/added to by 1936 excavations, before plowing created the plow furrow surface (B33) to the S. of B14. EXCAVATION NOTES: Looks like concrete supports (B16, B17) are resting on B14? B14 definitely significantly underlies E.-most support in excavation area. Have to remove more B14 to be sure. B14 and/or the surface below it may be sloping down to the N. Either natural slope of ground or perhaps result of digging out for the terrace wall (if E-W wall is a terrace wall). Some sherds are very modern--white shiny polished ceramic (e.g. still from levelling?). Soil deposit into which plow furrows have been cut (B33) breaks off at S. edge of B14--don't know yet if it underlies B14 at all. Need to clean more for now, and dig more. The three E.-most concrete supports (see sketch) have been removed in the course of excavating B14. Their lower surfaces definitely rested in B14. They were broken up with sledgehammers and removed with wheelbarrows. Fourth concrete support from the E. was removed on the morning of the 19th of April; its removal destroyed part of the wall it was cemeted onto. After the removal of B14 at the north edge of the excavation area, it appears that we have made a stratagraphical error with the excavation of B14. The excavator stopped digging B14 at 1007.7N and went straight down here creating a vertical scarp. After examining this scarp it is very clear that the cobbly deposit of B14 actually goes under another deposit (excavated later as B33) and thus predates it. Thus the pottery collected in this basket is a mix of B14 and this other deposit (B33). After consultation with James Herbst we realize that need to figure out how much of plow furrow surface (B33) is connected to the ridge aobve the B14 cobbles and dig that next. Pottery from B14 may be contaminated from the edge B33. After consultation with Guy Sanders, the cobbles of B14 do underlie B33 and thus pre-date it. The cobbles were possibly added to with cobbles from the other side of the wall thrown over in the 1936 excavations. Will begin removing B33 at W end of excavation area to reveal deposit underneath and work towards E end of excavation area. The cobblesvisible in the scarp left by the removal of B14 are still in situ will be dug as a new basket once they are exposed by the removal of B33. If the cobbles were thrown over the wall by the 1936 excavations, that would explain why cobbles' W.-ward extent is on line with the W.-most extent of Morgan's 1936 trench. **B14 does not cut plow furrow surface B33** Surface under B4 seems to slope down and merge into what is below B14--but this is not necessarily the case. More exploration is needed to fully determine the relationship. I've read the notebooks for the 1936 excavation (NB 153, 154), an exploratory trench at the S. property line of the Giambourani field, and they are not very helpful. There is no mention of the a cobble layer, but since discussion of excavation is so sparse, this does not mean they did not excavate one. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. decal ware porcelain1 rim. ; Fineware. grottaglie, bowl. ; Fineware. kutahia, coffee cup. 1 rim. ; Fineware. imitation porcelain1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. tasche noire1 rim. ; Fineware. interior glazed, jar. ; Fineware. canakkale, bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. koroneika, pithos. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. imitation grottaglie, bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. pre-modern 19 | |
| Pottery Summary: | 33 frag(s) 0.55 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 149 frag(s) 2.28 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 27 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | bone unid 25; glass clear pine green air bubbles L. 0.052 W. 0.023 Th. 0.003 bs 1 clear colorless L. .037 W. .016 Th. .002 bs 1 clear brown L. .070 W. .044 max Th. .008 min Th. .005 base 1; iron sheet frag. L. 0.054 W. 0.040 Th. 0.002 attached rivet 1; iron nail complete bent L. 0.037 Th. 0.005 square shank round head 1; iron frag. L. 0.020 W. 0.009 Th. 0.002 1; tile ca. 20; iron sheet frag. L. 0.026 W. 0.027 Th. 0.001 attached rivet 1; iron nail complete bent L. 0.049 Th. 0.004 square shank round head 1; iron nail complete L. 0.11 square shank round head 1; iron nail incomplete bent L. 0.044 Th. 0.006 square shank round head 1; iron nail incomplete head missing bent L. 0.038 Th. 0.005 square shank 1; iron sheet frag. L. 0.019 W. 0.011 Th. 0.002 attached rivet 1; clay pipe Turkish (MF-2007-1) 1 (saved to lot); glass clear colorless bs 2 clear bs 2; shell lima complete 1 partial 1; shell gaederopus complete 2 partial 1; water pipe rim 1 shoulder 4; iron shoe plate(?) L. 0.091 tapers to point from broad base partial 1 | |
| Period: | Early Modern (1831-1949 AD) | |
| Chronology: | ca. 1850-1900 | |
| Grid: | 279-272.2E, 1007.75-1010.3N | |
| XMin: | 272.2 | |
| XMax: | 279 | |
| YMin: | 1007.75 | |
| YMax: | 1010.3 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 87.48-89.19m. | |
| Is Above: | 57 | |
| Is Below: | 5 | |
| 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 0021 Image: digital 2007 0022 Object: MF 2007 1 |
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