Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 6815

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 6815
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Fill
Title:		Fill underneath NS wall 5561
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1104
Context:		6815
Page:		0
Date:		2010/04/24
Lot:		Lot 2010-005
Stratum:		15% inclusions: tile, small rocks and pebbles, pottery
Description:		Top slope of the context is uneven. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is coarse sand.
Notes:		Context 6815 is a stratum of loose fill revealed by the removal of NS wall 5561. We are excavating 6815 in order to clarify the nature of the stones that continue NS under wall 5561 and might represent an earlier phase of wall 5561. The soil of 6815 is loose, yellowish/reddish brown in color, and contains ca. 15% inclusions of small rocks, tile, pottery, small flecks of calcium carbonate, and some bone. As we excavate 6815, a few more stones have been revealed -- they continue in a North-South line and are possibly an earlier phase of NS wall 5561 and a different, older, NS wall. These stones have been revealed in the Southern area of context 2815; in the Northern area, we have come down on a loose fill with ca. 30% inclusions of tile, small rocks, and pottery. This fill seems to continue to the West, underneath the compact external floor surface (just to the North of bothros 5595; external floor = 6819). The NS wall underneath wall 5561 might continue futher North and was robbed out or destroyed, or it might terminate here.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. preroman2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. blue frit, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww painted (700-1120), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), plate. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), chafing dish. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. premedieval1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		9 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		26 frag(s) 0.32 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
		15 frag(s) 0.26 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		Bone- distal humerus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- innominate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s).; Bone- mandible of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- radius of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 5 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tooth of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- tooth of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 3 example(s).
Period:		Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:		late 11th c.
Grid:		270.75-270.04E, 1041.8-1042.91N
XMin:		270.04
XMax:		270.75
YMin:		1041.8
YMax:		1042.91
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.31-84.43m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2010 by Paga, Jessica (2010-04-07 to 2010-04-23) Object: C 2010 13