| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 10088 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Wall | |
| Title: | Wall | |
| Category: | Cut | |
| Notebook: | 1104 | |
| 1103 | ||
| Context: | 10088 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/02/11 | |
| 2009/04/21 | ||
| Stratum: | Fist sized cobbles and large ceramic fragments. | |
| 10% fist sized cobbles and large pottery fragments | ||
| Description: | The soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is loose. Structure materials: Reused squared limestone blocks, unworked cobbles, roof tiles. Material size: Max. block=0.48m x 0.43 x 0.37; Ave. cobble= 0.16. Material finish: Blocks squared, cobbles unworked. Material construction: Rubble masonry. Material bonding: none. Features: Cutting in northeast corner of southmost squared b. | |
| Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. The soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. Structure materials: reused squared limestone blocks; unworked cobbles, roof tiles. Material size: max. block: 0.48m x 0.43 x 0.37; ave. cobble: 0.16. Material finish: blocks squared, cobbles unworked. Material construction: rubble masonry. Material bonding: none. Features: cutting in NE corner of southernmost squared block. | ||
| Notes: | Alicia Carter; Marty Wells Size of Materials: Max. block=0.48m x 0.43 x 0.37; Ave. cobble= 0.16 x 0.11 x 0.5 Special Features: Cutting in northeast corner of southmost squared block This wall is being recorded as part of a plan to apply to have walls removed in this part of the site to reveal the 11th century AD phase of a house for public display. This wall was revealed in excavations in 1961 recorded in NB 229 but is not mentined in the notebook. The current state of preservation of this wall is very poor. It is unclear what the function of this wall was as it has survived as only a short stretch of wall. Its north end is badly eroded and even though Travlos does not draw it as continuing northward for any great distance, I suggest that originally it may have continued further north, possibly meeting wall 10090 to the north. On April 27th, we removed the wall, three large limestone blocks and some smaller cobbles. This material covered what appears to be foundation fubble. After the blocks were removed, we found fill (6147) directly below, covering the foundations (6148). | |
| This wall is being recorded as part of a plan to apply to have walls removed in this part of the site to reveal the 11th century AD phase of a house for public display. This wall was revealed in excavations in 1961 recorded in NB 229 but is not mentioned in the notebook. The current state of preservation of this wall is very poor. It is unclear what the function of this wall was as it has survived as only a short stretch of wall. Its north end is badly eroded and even though Travlos does not draw it as continuing northward for any great distance, I suggest that originally it may have continued further north, possible meeting wall 10090 to the north. On April 27 we removed the wall--three large limestone blocks and some smaller cobbles. These blocks covered what appears to be foundation rubble. After the blocks were removed, we found a layer of fill (6147) directly below, covering the foundations (6148). | ||
| Context Pottery: | Coarseware. pitcher. 1 handle. ; Coarseware. premedieval5 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 6 frag(s) 0.9 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | |
| Grid: | 280.96-280.45E, 1030.16-1031.32N | |
| XMin: | 280.45 | |
| XMax: | 280.96 | |
| YMin: | 1030.16 | |
| YMax: | 1031.32 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.24-85.99m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Martin Wells, Katie Rask, Dreya Mihaloew (2009-05-18 to 2009-05-19) Images (4) |
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