Corinth Basket: South Stoa, context 223
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   South Stoa, context 223
Area:   South Stoa
Title:   Thin clay surface over bedrock
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1109
Context:   223
Date:   2015/6/8
Lot:   Lot 2015-074
Stratum:   mudstone or very hard clay, color varies from dark reddish brown to light yellowish brown
Description:   The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is hard. It is sandy clay.
Notes:   1 or 2 cm thick laid directly on bedrock. So hard and stuck to the bedrock that as Panos removes it, it often takes pieces of the bedrock with it. Removal of this surface reveals a small pit (231) beneath it.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. Neolithic, fruit stand. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Prehistoric3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora. 8 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .red fabric
Pottery Summary:   6 frag(s) 0.05 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
    7 frag(s) 0.05 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
Context Artifacts:   Bone, unidentified, 1 (saved to lot); Clay floor (possible), 3 (saved to lot); stone, unworked, 1 (saved to lot)
Period:   Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Chronology:   mostly prehistoric
Grid:   329.2-326.1E, 1083.9-1085.5N
XMin:   326.1
XMax:   329.2
YMin:   1083.9
YMax:   1085.5
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: digital 2015 1124
Image: digital 2015 1125
Image: digital 2015 1126