Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 676

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 676
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Large Deposit N Side
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1109
Context:		676
Date:		2015/05/05
Stratum:		50% inclusions with several large roof tiles, large and small bone (equal number), pieces of shell, mandy medium angular, tabular pebbles, many fine angular, platy pebbles
Description:		The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:		Coin #91 (sieve) Byzantine? Latin Imitative Large deposit taking up the majority of the North part of room 9. The surface was even, indicating it was intentionally leveled and used as a dumping fill. The deposit is cut by the foundation trench for the eastern wall (strucure # 659), which goes clearly to a lower level fill. Several large rocks just north of the large robbing pits were taken out during the removal of the deposit. The high # of inclusions include shells, large and small bone, and a significant amount of pottery, indicating it was a well used fill. In addition a coin and a piece of black and white mosaic were found. This site was excavated over the course of 5/5/15 - 6/5/15. 02/06/2015 (L Kennedy): Animal bones: oyster, murex, clam + sheep/goat, bovid, Sus, 4.03 kg, all thrown.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. slipp and glaze painted, bowl. 7 bodysherds. ; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), plate. 1 rim. ; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), plate. 1 rim. ; Fineware. archaic maiolica, slipped (1270-1325), bowl. 2 bodysherds. ; Plainware. bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. ; Fineware. late painted sgraffito, bowl. 1 rim. 5 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)1 rim. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		198 frag(s) 1.28 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		838 frag(s) 6.5 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		270 frag(s) 2.1 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		iron strip 1; iron knife blade (L. 0.105, as MF-7182); glass clear colorless bs 5 (three with knob as MF-14171), olive green base 1 (flat as MF-8302), bs 1 blue green bs 2, dark green base 1 (as 7560), yellow stemmed goblet? Stem 1 (diam. 0.023; iron bar with corner (L. 0.051, W. 0.021); iron slag 3; bronze point (L. 0.033); iron clamps 2; bronze crochet hook (spindle hook) as MF-6215); piece of black and white mosaic; iron nail square shaft with head 5, rounded shaft 1, scraps 2; bronze strip 1 (L. 0.013, W. 0.010)
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		Late 13th to early 14th century
Grid:		131.4-126.83E, 1083.65-1086.73N
XMin:		126.83
XMax:		131.4
YMin:		1083.65
YMax:		1086.73
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.88-84.94m.
References:		Coin: 2015 91