Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 5051

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 5051
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Wall masonry
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1100
Context:		5051
Page:		0
Date:		2007/05/10
Stratum:		N/A. This basket records the masonry of a wall.
Description:		Top slope of the context is uneven. Bottom slope of the context is uneven down to the
Notes:		Masonry: the eastern end of the N wall of Room F, W half Materials: limestone orthostate, irregular fieldstones, broken tiles, marble blocks, squared limestone block. Note: it is not clear whether the limestone orthostate is part of this wall or the N wall of Room F, W half (i.e., the wall immediately to the W of this wall). Size: orthostate: H: 0.87 m; W: 0.705 m; squared limestone block: H: 0.12 m; W: 0.298 m; D: 0.305 m; fieldstones (avg): H: 0.08 m; W: 0.135 m; D: 0.255 m Finish of stones: Roughly hewn (or not hewn at all, in the case of the fieldstones); squared (in the case of the limestone orthostate and squared block), many broken stones. Some smoothed as river stones. Coursing/Bond: 1) (If the vertical orthostate is part of this wall) Vertical orthostate and large squared limestone block, spaced at intervals with large rubble fill in between. -- OR -- 2) If the vertical orthostate is part of the wall W of this wall) A mix of stones, including fieldstones, broken marble block, and squared limestone block, rubble masonry, no regular pattern recognizable. Does not square with earlier wall immediately to west, although it follows the same line and is perhaps filling in a doorway in that wall. No bond with the N wall of Room F west, the N wall of Room F east, or the potatostone wall. Form: Infilling of earlier wall in the space of a doorway or other opening. Bonding material: none. But the soil in the matrix of the wall is a mix of dark reddish brown sandy silt and light greyish brown sandy silt. Dimensions of masonry as found: (these dimensions include the vertical orthostate block) H: 0.87 m; W: 0.705 m; L: 0.455 m. Notes: We are removing the wall (E section, W of potatostone wall). We pulled out the large squared limestone block together with a mix of soil and stones. We have reached the bottom of the wall, which sits on rubble fill (B 5052), except that the vertical orthostate sits on a lower surface. We have not yet removed this vertical orthostate. The N Wall of Room F, W appears to continue into the potatostone wall which was built abutting it on both the N side and the S side. This wall (E end of N wall of Room F, W) was put in third; the N Wall of Room F was first and the potatostone wall second.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. AfRS ?Form 61; Fineware. pre-Roman3 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:		4 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		25 frag(s) 0.32 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		18 frag(s) 0.07 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		marble white 1; bone fowl 2 unid 5; tile 3
Period:		Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:		late 4th - early 5th
Grid:		271.11-270.1E, 1020.02-1020.7N
XMin:		270.1
XMax:		271.11
YMin:		1020.02
YMax:		1020.7
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.74-86.35m.
Is Above:		5052
Is Below:		5045
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Heidi Broome-Raines (2007-04-30 to 2007-05-18)