Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 337

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 337
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Surface
Title:		Clay floor between walls 313 and 334
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1101
Context:		337
Page:		0
Date:		2008/05/26
Lot:		Lot 2008-042
Stratum:		10% angular pebbles, rounded boulders, carbon, tile
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the W. The soil color is dark yellowish red. The soil compaction is hard. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty clay.
Notes:		337 is a red clay floor between walls 313 on the W, 334 on the E, and 335 to the N. 335 is partly preserved and the rest of the N side is delineated by a pit (B71) from the 2007 season. The S is bordered by 2 pits: 310 and 290. Pit 290 has parts of a wall visible on its N side running E-W, below and S of wall 299. The floor sits directly ON TOP of this wall in the SW portion. The clay has patches of black and pebbles throughout and runs up to the face of its bordering walls. Wall 334 is robbed out in parts and the floor is present up to the edge of this cut. Floor surfaces are higher where they meet the walls and slump down towards the center, where a large pit (B191) from the 2007 season has been cut into the strosis. The floor is visible betonw the E, N, and S edges of this pit but, in the central portion of the S section, there is no floor surface visible. Instead a rocky brown softer soil seems to run from the pit edge to approx 1.3m S. Within this darker patch a lump of yellow clay is visible. The dark yellowis red soil is fairly hard and full of angular pebbles, what look like river stones (rounded boulders - 10x5x5cm) and patches of black. A few tiles with edges are preserved - 20x15cm. After removing the red floor a darker, blackish floor appears in the NE corner, bordered by pit B191 and walls 334, 335.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. late champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1200-1225)1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Byzantine5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. coarse incised, slipped style VI (1200-1220), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre medieval2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. late champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1200-1225), bowl. 3 rims. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		14 frag(s) 0.07 kg. (86% saved) fineware.
		130 frag(s) 1.22 kg. (2% saved) coarseware.
		45 frag(s) 0.22 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass, green bs 1; glass, green base 1, Diam. 3.5 (similar to MF 8302)
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		2nd 1/4 of 13th
Grid:		268.75-266.08E, 1000.11-1006.3N
XMin:		266.08
XMax:		268.75
YMin:		1000.11
YMax:		1006.3
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		86.97-87.2m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Joseph Lillywhite, Joel Rygorsky, Matthew Sears, Martin Wells (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) Object: MF 2008 33