Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 6621

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 6621
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Fill
Title:		fill
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1103
Context:		6621
Page:		0
Date:		2009/06/09
Stratum:		15%: large angular tile fragments, small platy obbles, small angular stones
Description:		The soil color is light pinkish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is moderately sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		The entirety of this fill/cut combination was revealed by the excavation of context 6619. The soft fill 6621 was identified ringing the northern and eastern edges of cut 6380. Additionally, it appears to be bunded by the reddish colored "stereo" soil that forms the boundary of the pit cut. This interpretation helps to explain why we've been noticing slumped fill in this same place for several contexts running (e.g., 6587), if the line of 6380 was more convex than we initially estimated. The context did not reach a great depth before the fill that we were excavating disappeared into the eastern section. Upon seeing the line that this context defined, it remains straight in shape and may yet be the beginning of the robbing trench cut on its eastern path. However, the cut does not continue eastward yet at the surface we have exposed. It may yet continue that direction, though. One of the problems with that is that the strata to the east lie at a lower elevation than the height where we found the cut to the west; are we missing it, was the cut truncated by something else, or is it a situation where three fills are filling cuts that cut into each other, making the lines and fills variable? It may be that surfaces are just slanting eastward at this point, and we will find the terminus of all of these cuts (east-west foundation trench 6616, east-west robbing trench) after we remove more floor surfaces. POST-EXCAVATION NOTE, 15-06-09, S.L.: Contexts 6663 and 6649, at least one of which underlies this context, were found to contain two joining coarse incised ware body fragments of the Frankish period, dating to the mid-13th century. These sherds will stratigraphically change the dates of every context that lies above them by as much as two centuries, of which this context is one. Until it is decided whether there is some other reason that this discrepancy might have occurred (e.g., these contexts need to be situated in a different place on the Harris Matrix), the dates will remain as they have been assigned on the basis of pottery/stratigraphy prior to discovering this discrepancy.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. measles, slipped slip painted sgraffito (1140-1160), bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), cup. 1 rim.
Pottery Summary:		8 frag(s) 0.04 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		54 frag(s) 0.62 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		8 frag(s) 0.06 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		bronze lump 2
Period:		Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:		mid 12th
Grid:		269.92-268.12E, 1023.64-1025N
XMin:		268.12
XMax:		269.92
YMin:		1023.64
YMax:		1025
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.27m.
References:		Coin: 2009 197 Coin: 2009 198