Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 317
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 317
Area:   Nezi Field
Context Type:   Fill
Title:   Rocky fill east of wall 316
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1101
Context:   317
Page:   0
Date:   2008/05/21
Stratum:   80% tiles, subrounded angular boulders, ceramics
Description:   Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand.
Notes:   317 is opened to examine the relationship between the fills to the east of wall 316. There is a yellowish clay layer to the south mixed with a blacker matrix. 317 has light yellowish brown soil with very large tiles and boulders ca. 20cm L x 10 cm W x 10 cm H. The soil is soft and comes down upon a very soft layer with no large inclusions, the reddish soil to the east and vertical strosis of the clayey material to the south.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:   1 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    14 frag(s) 0.12 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
Context Artifacts:   tile, medieval pan 1 (0.36L 0.32W 0.03 th, cover 1 (0.18W 0.03th); Bronze, spindle hook 1, 0.021L (similar to Corinth XII, p.176, no.1224, pl. 78)
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   early 14th
Grid:   265.19-264.51E, 995.74-996.46N
XMin:   264.51
XMax:   265.19
YMin:   995.74
YMax:   996.46
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   87-87.3m.
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Joseph Lillywhite, Joel Rygorsky, Matthew Sears, Martin Wells (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13)