Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 6528

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 6528
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Fill
Title:		Leveling Fill
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1104
Context:		6528
Page:		0
Date:		2010/04/12
Stratum:		15% inclusions: tile, pottery, bone, stone (medium pebbles-cobbles; angular; spherical-tabular)
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the SW. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:		N.B. Context number 6528 skipped in 2009. For consistency we are using it during the 2010 season. Context 6528 is a tile-laden fill located in the northeast part of the room west of the courtyard of the Byzantine house. It was revealed during the removal of context 6679. It may be a leveling fill associated with floor 6668=6670=6672. The western part of context 6528 appears to be truncated by a cut which is in the same position as pit 6232. However, the same stone fill appears to be present on the other side of the cut. It is possible that the fill in the pit caused part of the surfaces below to slump down and break off from the rest of the context giving the false impression of a cut. A similar phenomenon may have occurred to a floor type surface to the west of 6528 also apparently truncated by the same pit. The soil is dark yellowish brown clayey silt with 15% inclusions (stone, tile, pottery, bone). The removal of context 6528 revealed part of a surface with areas of ash and charcoal. It also revealed more of a gravel-filled surface located in the central part of this room. As digging continued, it became clear that the fill to the west was part of the same context indicating this fill covered the entire northern portion of the room. The central part was broken in a pattern identical to pit 6232 above giving the false impression of a cut. Instead, context 6528 is delineated by a crack. Overall, the context had few finds consisting of a small number of sherds and a few bone fragments. The removal of context 6528 also revealed a reddish layer under what had been pit 6232. Against wall 5724, the removal of 6528 revealed a rectangular opening with tile at the bottom. Additional Notes: SG (25/04/10) The excavation of the northern pit in this room (fill 6583, cut 6655; formerly NB 235, bothros 9) showed that it was Frankish in date and should be a continuation of the pit dug in the 1960s. This means that the layers above were not cracked, but truncated by a cut (including 6528). As for our interpretation that context 6528 continued across the cut, it is likely that we instead encountered a lens of fill in the pit very similar to that of context 6528. We thus overdug 6528 and the portion within cut 6655 should have been treated separately. This also explains why Frankish pottery appeared in context 6528 since this must have come from the part of the context associated with the pit.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300)2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. RMR, slipped (1275-1325), bowl. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		10 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (30% saved) fineware.
		127 frag(s) 2.58 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		24 frag(s) 0.4 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		Bone- complete metacarpal of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- distal tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s).
Period:		Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD)
Chronology:		11th century
Grid:		264.72-261.19E, 1032.6-1034.91N
XMin:		261.19
XMax:		264.72
YMin:		1032.6
YMax:		1034.91
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		83.96-84.01m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2010 by Scott Gallimore (2010-04-07 to 2010-04-23)