Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 5644

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 5644
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Fill
Title:		dumped fill
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1101
Context:		5644
Page:		0
Date:		2008/05/26
Stratum:		20% inclusions: small subangular platy cobbles, small subrounded pebbles, tile, pottery, bone
Description:		Top slope of the context is gradual down to the W. The soil color is light yellowish grey. The soil compaction is firm, loose later. The soil is well sorted. It is silty clay.
Notes:		This area had not been excavated since week two, when fill was removed from Cut 5498. The bottommost layer, 5516, ay have left a small skin of hard, white clay on the surface of this context. The pickman removed the skin, retrieving no finds, and continued to the next soil change. The soil remained a fairly consistent color throughout the context, though dampness may have caused deeper levels removed to be darker in color. The pickman detected a cut while digging through the soft soil on the E edge of the context; he found a regular cut, vertical, which appeared in the section and was defined by a harder, clayeyer inner edge. The cut continued as far as the new E-W wall and the rubble pile, but there is no parallel for it on the W side, where the pile of rubble in the NW corner appears to overlie the soft fill and perhaps also be enclosed by the pit. The pickman uncovered a large, subcircular stone to the E edge of the new pit cut, and speculated that it could be related to another well construction. Before we can know, however, the extent fo the pit cut must be found-- and the stones from the NW corner are obscuring it, which in turn are covered by fill; their soil matrix is also soft, meaning they may also fill the pit cut. The relationship of the pit cut to the exposed surface to the E is interesting, too-- it appears to cut it. This could make the constructions contemporary for the foundation cobbles 5604 and the new cut. The well head installation also appears in conjunction with this surface, although a definitivef well cut has not been found. Addendum, 27.05.08: G.S. thinks that the foundation cut for 5604 would have occurred at a much higher elevation. So perhaps it does not relate to this surface afterall.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), pitcher. 1 handle. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. RMR, slipped (1275-1325), bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 2 rims. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. 10 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270), stewpot. 2 rims. ; Coarseware. amphora. 4 bodysherds. ; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:		20 frag(s) 0.11 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		241 frag(s) 2.46 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		42 frag(s) 0.42 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		iron spike 1
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		late 13th
Grid:		262.92-261.59E, 1036.8-1037.93N
XMin:		261.59
XMax:		262.92
YMin:		1036.8
YMax:		1037.93
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.87m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Sarah Lima (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13)