Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 579
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 579
Area:   Nezi Field
Context Type:   Fill
Title:   Fill in depression in Floor
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1103
Context:   579
Page:   0
Date:   2009/05/28
Stratum:   40% fine-coarse subrounded pebbles, bone, pottery
Description:   Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is well sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:   Deposit 579 is a lens of accumulated material in a shallow depression in the brown floor associated with the wall 540 . The deposit is notable for the amount of animal bone and 2 coins that were recovered during its excavation. The removal of this deposit further exposed the red pebbly deposit that appears to be sitting in a cut in the same floor.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 rim.
Pottery Summary:   1 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    10 frag(s) 0.04 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
Context Artifacts:   iron nail head 1, lump 1; glass clear yellowish bs 1; Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; Bone- hyoid of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- indeterminate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 5 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 14 fragment(s). ; Bone- metapodial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 fragment(s). ; Bone- metapodial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 2 fragment(s). ; Bone- metapodial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 9 fragment(s). ; Bone- phalanx of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 5 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 28 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- ulna of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae, lumbar of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   second half 13th
Grid:   263.81-263.1E, 1012.39-1012.62N
XMin:   263.1
XMax:   263.81
YMin:   1012.39
YMax:   1012.62
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   86.74-86.89m.
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Jody Cundy and Dina Boero (2009-06-19 to 2009-06-20)
Coin: 2009 157
Coin: 2009 159