Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 372

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 372
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Fill in W third of Corridor
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1108
Context:		372
Date:		2014/05/21
Stratum:		About 70% inclusions, predominately coarse pebbles and small angular tiles, minimal ceramic, minimal bone
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light yellowish grey. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		We are beginning to remove some of the hard-packed fill covering the W third of the corridor. This fill appears to us to have been functioning as a working surface, similar to a floor, but probably outside. A knife, Context 319, was found lyng flat on this surface (now Context 372), and five pits appear to have been cut into it. We are exploring it now in an effort to better understand the relationship of this surface to the fill removed as Context 266, lying to the E along the N wall of the Corridor, and the hard-packed surface revealed in the excavation of fill contexts 285, 343, 353, and 351. As we dig, we are coming down on a slightly softer surface, very inclusion rich, which appears to be comprised of a darker, blacker matrix to the S, while at the N, we have come down on what appears to be a piece of hard, cement like floor or road, that terminates horizontally at the threshold/robbed out wall of Room 7. We are closing this context in order to better understand the relationships between the different matrices coming up.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 1 rim. 3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. RMR, slipped (1275-1325), bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. painted sgraffito, bowl. 1 rim. no overglaze; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), pitcher. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:		30 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		137 frag(s) 0.9 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		40 frag(s) 0.35 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		3rd-4th quarter 13th century
Grid:		123.4-121.5E, 1075.7-1078N
XMin:		121.5
XMax:		123.4
YMin:		1075.7
YMax:		1078
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85-85.05m.