Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 6885
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 6885
Area:   Nezi Field
Context Type:   Fill
Title:   Rubble Fill
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1104
Context:   6885
Page:   0
Date:   2010/05/11
Stratum:   40% tile sherds, large cobbles
Description:   Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:   6885 is in the north east corner of Room B in the corner between walls 6245 and 5483. It is bellow a bothros pit identified in the 2009 excavation (cf. 6263). After removing the mound of tile, we closed the context upon hitting a stratum of other large stones. A coin was found (compare with coin in 6263). The contest was over dug below the initial tile layer.
Context Pottery:   Cooking ware. medieval cooking fabric2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. byzantine, amphora. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. preroman4 bodysherds. ; Fineware. premedieval1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:   5 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    74 frag(s) 1.69 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    24 frag(s) 0.13 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 3 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 3 example(s).
Period:   Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:   NPD
Grid:   271.93-271.2E, 1026.64-1027.04N
XMin:   271.2
XMax:   271.93
YMin:   1026.64
YMax:   1027.04
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   83.96-84.27m.
References:   Coin: 2010 69