| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 510 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Pit | |
| Title: | pit | |
| Category: | Cut | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 510 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/05/06 | |
| Description: | The context shape in plan is oval. The top break of the cut is sharp. The sides of the cut are vertical. The break at the base of the cut is sharp. The base of the cut is flat. Truncation: none. | |
| Notes: | Context 510 is the cut for the pit located between walls 313 and 332 and east of structure 452. The pit was filled in by the deposit 508 and it was overlaid by by slumped deposit 507. Now that the excavation of the pit and the slumped deposits overlaying and surrounding it are completed, it seems that cut 510 is a cut made in the fill of a larger pit..Both pits cut and therefore postdate the red clay floor that is associated with walls 332 and 313 (exposed in 2008). The excavation of the fill of the pit 510 (deposit 508) showed that the large limestone block that is visible below the two cut sections of red clay floor in the northern part of the room bounded by walls 313 and 332 was cut for the purpose of digging the pit. Because of this and the diameter of the pit, we suspect that this pit reflects an effort to construct a well. If this is the case, the well was never constructed for unknown reasons. It should be noted that we overdug the bottom of this pit. We hit a soil change and assumed that the soft deposit was not the bottom of the pit, b ut rather a second fill deposit in the pit. As we progress with the excavation of deposit 509, we discovered that the fill continued underneath the bottom of the cut. It seems that the bottom of the pit was soft because the cut 510 was made in the fill of an earlier larger pit. If indeed cut 510 represents an effort to sink a well, there is no obvious reason why they should have stopped excavation at this soil change as further excavation would have been easy, particularly after the effort spent in cutting back the limestone block. | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 13th | |
| Grid: | 265.28-264.3E, 1004.41-1005.31N | |
| XMin: | 264.3 | |
| XMax: | 265.28 | |
| YMin: | 1004.41 | |
| YMax: | 1005.31 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.34-86.87m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Stella Diakou and Jody Cundy (2009-05-19 to 2009-05-20) |
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