Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 76

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 76
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Context Type:		Deposit
Title:		Fill of second pit N of Unit 2 Rm F, 2nd from top.
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1108
Context:		76
Date:		2014/04/21
Stratum:		10% ceramic and cobble, iron, glass.
Description:		Top slope of the context is uneven down to the W. The soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:		During the excavation of context 75, the small patch west of the third floor, we reveal a cutting which appears to be for another pit truncated by the earlier, larger pit (context 56/cut86). The area is characterized by soft black clay with many inclusions of tile and small pebbles to larger stone (0.15x0.15), as well as snails. This fill is more compact than the deposit above it. Its edge was also clearly defined on the east side - it was raised approximately 0.05m above the bottom of the cut of depost 75. It seems at this point that 75 was the earliest pit fill, that it was truncated by the cut for the second pit from the top, that the fill this pit actually had two lenses, and that only the first of these lenses had been excavated (context 53). The current context, then, is the second lens of the second pit, and that it post-dates the deposit just excavated (75). Its bottom consisted of harder clay. Its west most border was the same as that of the second pit. The center of context 76 is raised, relative to its edges, this raising is associated perhaps with the rubble that runs up to the northern scarp. The raised surface revealed under 76 will need to be excavated to determine whether we have reached the bottom of the pit. The pi t seems to have been made deliberately, and when the fill of 76 became more compressed and sank below the surroudning earth ,a second lens (context 53) was added to maintain a level sruface, Alternatively, the cut 55 is a robbing trench and 53 and 76 are two stages of natural filling which would account for the silty composition and indiscrimate small finds
Context Pottery:		Fineware. sgraffito IV (1300-1400), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Plainware. stamnos, bowl. 4 bodysherds. matte painted; Fineware. protomaiolica, bowl. 1 bodysherd. gridiron; Coarseware. bowl. 5 bodysherds. ; Plainware. pitcher. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. as c-63-530; Fineware. ottoman sgraffito, bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:		13 frag(s) 0.09 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		174 frag(s) 0.76 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		21 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass, rim, 1; iron, nail, square shank, 1, head 1 (Coin 2014-19); glass clear, colorless, bs, 1; glass clear, blue green, bs, 1
Period:		Turkish II (1715-1831 AD)
Chronology:		19th
Grid:		109.9-108.28E, 1076.78-1078.27N
XMin:		108.28
XMax:		109.9
YMin:		1076.78
YMax:		1078.27
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		86.09-86.15m.
References:		Coin: 2014 19 Coin: 2014 20