| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5870 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | fill to W of 1960s courtyard | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5870 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/06/11 | |
| Stratum: | 10% inclusions: tile, small angular cobbles, small rounded cobbles, small angular pebbles, ceramics | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is uneven. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Following the excavation of context 5867, and cleaning below the area excavated during context 5798, we identified what appeared to be a cut carving eastward from a harder pocket of soil to the west. Because we did not have an eastern limit for the cut, we decided to excavate to the E, an area that has not been excavated since the 1960s. We know that this was identified as the robbing trench for wall 5473 (a much later event than any of the other few articulated previously). Excavations stopped after that was excavated, and the area has been left as a martyr since then. The soil has been compacted by foot traffic since the beginning of this season. If we do find cuts in this level of fill, their strata of origin will be unknown. We have begun by taking a shallow cleaning pass in order to eliminate contamination. After seeing no boundaries, we took another pass of about 0.05 m to see if distinctions lay further below the start of the context. The pottery from within this context is 13th century, meaning that the walls installed around it may have gone in during that period, eradicating pebbled floors that must have once reached to this point. The reason that we assert that this is probably the case is that we do have pebbled floor surface remaining to the E of the putative robbing trench, to the N. It is excavated as context 5878. Excavating this context has also revealed that we have a layer of what does appear to be yard trash, resting between two separate cuts for N-S wall robbing events. The trash consists of cobbles, tiles, and pottery, and appears triangular in shape. The lines of the N-S robbing trench for wall 5473 lie to the E of the triangular remainder, while the cut that we had identified to the W as part of context 5867 may actually have its answer to the W. We will first excavate the remainder of the robbing trench to the E, then move to the putative N-S robbing trench to the W. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320), stewpot. 1 rim. ; Fineware. early champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1170-1200)1 rim. ; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260)1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. AfRS1 rim. ; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 handle. ; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. prefrankish3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. premedieval22 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 2 rims. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. RMR, slipped (1275-1325), bowl. 1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 33 frag(s) 0.08 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 31 frag(s) 0.27 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 327 frag(s) 3.11 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear greenish base 2, greenish bs 4, colorless bs 3, greenish rim 1; loomweight, 1; iron nail round shank 1; stone tessera white 2, black 1, grey 1 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 13th century | |
| Grid: | 266.98-265.6E, 1031.1-1033.05N | |
| XMin: | 265.6 | |
| XMax: | 266.98 | |
| YMin: | 1031.1 | |
| YMax: | 1033.05 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.55-84.66m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Sarah Lima (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) Image: digital 2008 0205 Coin: 2008 246 |
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