Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 626

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 626
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Greyish fill north of church
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1109
Context:		626
Date:		2015/04/27
Lot:		Lot 2015-027
Stratum:		Inclusions approx. 10%: pottery, bone, small tile bits, small coarse pebbles and stones (some rounded or sub-rounded), occasional ocbbles
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the W. The soil color is light greyish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:		The mottled fill (contexts 613/619/622) which covered the entire length of the trench has been removed. Underneath, we find a more sterile greyish fill in the east and a browner soil with much charcoal within its matrix in the west. They meet roughly in the center of the excavation area, in the center of the corridor. The workmen decided to work the higher hump in the east first. I assume we will talk after about how I would like them to proceed (i.e. carefully from E-W until they can discern a break between the two fills mentioned above). After bringing down the hump, the workmen concur that the soil underneath is still the same as the greyish fill running towards the center of the trench. This fill has much less faunal remains in it (in the east), but those were concentrated in the center and western parts of the trench in the mottled fill above (coincident with the appearance of a lot of charcoal). Kostas says that this context runs further west than I originally thought. This context may well cover the entire trench. I am letting Kostas continue until he discerns a boundary, if one exists. I would not be surprised to find more faunal remains in this western half. There are many charcoal specks visible at the surface. There have indeed been found more animal bones as we proceed further west into the heavily charcoal-ed area of the trench. Kostas has reached the string line in the north (1078 N), around the stub wall, so he must feel that the context extended thoroughout the trench. Kostas finished the full pass of the trench. What we have directly underneath is a softer soil which runs from the eastern edge of the trench, roughly to the center, where it contains some cobble-sized stones and tiles. Diving underneath this soft layer in the N and NE is a harder layer, which may end up connected with another hard soil layer just north of a few boulders peeking up east of Grave 2014-08. This small patch of hard material seems also to underlay a soft soil to the N and NW, but the latter soft soil is cleaner/more sterile than the former soft soil.\ 02/06/2015 (L Kennedy): Animal bones: 2 buckets, saved to Corinth Lot 2015-27, 5.02 kg. Not examined at this time.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 12 rims. 86 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-Roman36 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .proto-Corinthian kotyle; Cooking ware. folded1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), lamp. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-Frankish18 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matt-painted, pilgrim flask. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Frankish sgrafitto, bowl. 4 rims. 34 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matt-painted, pitcher. 1 rim. 2 handles. 24 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-Byzantine14 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. light on dark IV, slip painted (1225-1260), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late painted sgrafitto, dish. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. late proto-geometric, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late painted sgrafitto, dish. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .no overglaze, mending hole; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 rim. 2 handles. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matt-painted, basin. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 6 rims. 13 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .join b 616; Fineware. white ware, polychrome, cup. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. blue frit, bowl. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		288 frag(s) 1.74 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		1994 frag(s) 16.67 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
		275 frag(s) 1.85 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		iron blade 1; iron strip 2; glass clear colorless bs 10; iron lump 1; bronze lump 1; glass clear yellow bs 3; glass clear green ribbed trails bs 2; stone stopper (Diam. 0.033, Th. 0.009) 1; iron buckle 1; bone tube with shell bead (similar to bone tube from Context 598) 1; iron nail square shank 3; glass red bs 1; glass clear blue spiral trails bs 1; glass clear green rounded base 2; bronze wire 2; tc lamp nozzle type XVI 1; glass clear green bs 10; iron nail head 1; glass clear green handle? 1; glass clear green tubular foot 1; glass clear blue bs 13; glass clear blue rim 3; glass clear green solid ring foot 2; iron nail round shank 2; glass brown and white streaks bs 1; iron arrowhead? 1
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		mid-13th c.
Grid:		129.55-121.79E, 1075.07-1078N
XMin:		121.79
XMax:		129.55
YMin:		1075.07
YMax:		1078
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.601-84.722m.
References:		Object: MF 2015 4 Coins (5)