Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 6140

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 6140
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Fill
Title:		leveling fill
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1103
Context:		6140
Page:		0
Date:		2009/04/16
Lot:		Lot 2009-053
Stratum:		20% (tile, tabular medium pebbles, spherical boulders, bone, ceramics)
Description:		The soil color is dark brownish grey. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is moderately sorted. It is silty sand.
Notes:		We are excavating a baulk left as a martyr along the S side of foundation 5552 by the 1960s excavation. We are attempting to establish the chronology and phasing of the walls in the area. After removing several layers of floors and fills we came upon a layer of ash filled with bone (6136) laid on what appeared to be leveling fill (6140), but not covering the entire floor 6140. to the W floor 6140 was overlaid by a rubbish-filled layer of dump that was only slightly ashy. It is possible that the ash was dumped in the corner of and spread across the floor when the dump was leveled to accommodate floor 6124/6127. removal of fill 6140 revealed a cut separating a nearly perfect square of fill along the E wall of the room from a very nice packed earth floor further W. this cut resembles a similar line several strata above but the spread of ash associated with dumped fill 6136 demonstrates that all apparent cuts above that level were mere phantomes. The excavation session is now ending and we will not be able to finish this context.
Context Pottery:		Coarseware. trefoil mouthed, pitcher. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. premedieval8 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)6 rims. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. ww, kettle. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pedestalled bowl. 2 rims. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww polychrome (1050-1120), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), unidentified. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		11 frag(s) 0.03 kg. (36% saved) fineware.
		147 frag(s) 1.79 kg. (12% saved) coarseware.
		56 frag(s) 0.65 kg. (61% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		iron nail round shaft 1; iron point 1; iron fragment 4; iron knife blade 1 similar to MF 7093 (Corinth XII.1567); shell murex 1; iron lump 2; Bone- cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- femur of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- femur of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- indeterminate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 3 fragment(s). ; Bone- mandible of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- mandible of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- radius of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- radius of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- rib of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).
Period:		Byzantine
Chronology:		late 11th/ early 12th
Grid:		277-274.51E, 1023.29-1026.01N
XMin:		274.51
XMax:		277
YMin:		1023.29
YMax:		1026.01
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.57-84.76m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Dan Leon, Ben Sullivan (2009-04-23 to 2009-04-24) Report: Nezi Field 2009 by spongberg hammond lima (2009-05-20 to 2009-05-21)