Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 6342
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 6342
Area:   Nezi Field
Context Type:   Fill
Title:   Fill
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1103
Context:   6342
Page:   0
Date:   2009/05/08
Stratum:   Ceramics (mostly tile); stones (small pebbles to cobbles; angular; spherical to tabular)
Description:   The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:   Context 6341 is a leveling fill sitting in between the two piers (6319, 6337) southwest of courtyard of Byzantine house. Abutted by a small pebble floor patch to the south. Not very deep and could represent a leveling fill intended to be for pebble floor represented by patch (6339), the rest of the floor of which was destroyed at some point previously. Removal of context 6342 revealed more of the floor into which post hole 6340 (cut 6341) is cut. Soil is light yellowish brown clayey silt with approximately 15% inclusions. Removal of context 6342 in its eastern part revealed a concentration of ash.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. Premedieval1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 2 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100), stewpot. 1 rim.
Pottery Summary:   2 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    6 frag(s) 0.06 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    19 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   early 13th
Grid:   265.75-265.06E, 1028.87-1030.5N
XMin:   265.06
XMax:   265.75
YMin:   1028.87
YMax:   1030.5
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   84.79-84.86m.
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2009 by William Bruce, Scott Gallimore (2009-04-27 to 2009-05-15)
Image: digital 2009 1464