| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5949 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Possible leveling fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 5949 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/04/02 | |
| Stratum: | Sandy silt with 20% inclusions (rounded fine, medium, course pebbles, and ceramics). | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | When foundation 5552 was removed, a single large block was revealed suggesting the possibility of another wall overlaid by 5552. While preparing to excavate the lower wall in order to determine its chronological and structural relationship to foundation 5552, Panos the pickman noticed what appeared to be several different soil compositions (and thus several different deposits) in the soil overlaying what we originially thought was the top course of the wall. Two deposits (5949 and 5952) that seemed to be of the same composition were divided by a third, harder and lighter deposit. Beginning with deposit 5949, we dug to determine the chronological relationship of the deposits and the nature of the structure beneath. After removing deposit 5949 from the foundation trench of structure 5552, a deposit of the same nature as the harder, lighter deposit was revealed. Panos postulates that the large block overlaid by the easternmost edge of deposit 5949 was in fat part of the lowest course of foundation 5552 or a pre-existing wall upon which foundation 5552 was founded. Since it is a well-cut block, and since part of deposit 5949 fills a cut of roughly the same shape, perhaps a block was robbed out and replaced with fill (=deposit 5949) when foundation 5552 was built. The cut into which foundation 5552 was placed seems to have the same dimensions as the cut into which the mysterious well-cut block was placed, which suggests that the block is in fact part of foundation 5552. Further excavation will take place to determine the relationship of the block and the wall, but first a large deposit (5954) laid against the remains of the eastern end of foundation 5552 must be excavated, since the removal of the remains of foundation 5552 would likely destroy the chronologically earlier deposit 5954. Revised 23/4/09 DWL: The record for context 5943 has been expunged because we never excavated it. That number was given to what we believed to be a structure (or a very hard deposit) overlaid in different parts by deposits 5949, 5952, and foundation 5552. 5943 was shaped like wall 6120 (overlaid by the eastern end of foundation 5552), and we suspect it had something to do with the construction of that earlier wall. | |
| Context Pottery: | Coarseware. amphora. 8 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. sloping1 rim. ; Fineware. premedieval1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), mug. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. amphora. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 3 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (33% saved) fineware. | |
| 114 frag(s) 1.57 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 28 frag(s) 0.4 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 2nd half of 13th | |
| Grid: | 274.06-272.85E, 1025.89-1026.46N | |
| XMin: | 272.85 | |
| XMax: | 274.06 | |
| YMin: | 1025.89 | |
| YMax: | 1026.46 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.19-84.42m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Dan Leon, Ben Sullivan (2009-04-23 to 2009-04-24) |