Corinth Basket South Stoa, context 573

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		South Stoa, context 573
Area:		South Stoa
Context Type:		deposit
Title:		Rocky Fill of Large Bedrock Cutting
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1110
Context:		573
Date:		2016/06/02
Lot:		Lot 2016-048
Stratum:		pottery, bone, fine to coarse (mostly coarse) rounded to angular spherical to tabular pebbles, cobbles, shell
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the W. The soil color is dark brownish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is moderately sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		this rocky layer appears to fill a very large cut in the bedrock-- so large that it takes up most of the area of our trench, save the patch of flattened bedrock, revealed by removal of 571, in the northern corner of the triangle, and the western corner. We think that this may be leveling fill for the road, laid in the large cut in the bedrock that we hypothesized earlier. Removal of this layer revealed that the flat bedrock extended further west; it also revealed flat bedrock in the southern corner of the triangle. Near the end of this context-- there appears to be a sort of bedrock step in the south. Based on the scarp, the bedrock seems to dive down again after the step. The rocky fill 573 runs over the step. Fewer rocks further down and closer to the edge of the bedrock.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. EH red slipped, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .t-rim with rope pattern; Fineware. EH red slipped, bowl. 9 rims. (saved to lot) .with incurving rim; Fineware. EH red slipped59 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH light-painted2 rims. 3 handles. 82 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .incl 2 with mending holes; Fineware. EH red slipped, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .flat rimmed; Fineware. EH black slipped, bowl. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .flat rimmed; Fineware. LN black on red1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN Black-Burnished1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .with incision filled with white; Fineware. EH light-painted, bowl. (saved to lot) .with pushed in base; Fineware. LN MP2 rims. 13 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH black slipped1 rim. 1 handle. 23 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN Black-Burnished, fruitstand. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .bowl with relief decoration; Fineware. LN Black-Burnished1 rim. 23 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH black slipped, closed vessel. (saved to lot) .with flat base; Fineware. EH red slipped, bowl. (saved to lot) .with pushed in base; Fineware. LN Grey Ware3 rims. 2 handles. 19 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH red slipped, bowl. (saved to lot) .with flat bases; Fineware. EH black slipped, jar. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN Grey Ware, fruitstand. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .pedestal
Pottery Summary:		556 frag(s) 4.3 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
Context Artifacts:		shell land 7, marine 2 (saved to lot); obsidian 2, blade 2 (saved to lot); stone tool? 1 (saved to lot); arrowhead? 1 (saved to lot); bone 20, tooth 1 (saved to lot); chert red 1 (saved to lot)
Period:		Early Helladic
Chronology:		EH II
Grid:		353-351.45E, 1086.6-1089.1N
XMin:		351.45
XMax:		353
YMin:		1086.6
YMax:		1089.1
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		80.2-80.36m.
References:		Image: digital 2016 0524 Image: digital 2016 0527