Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 6062
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 6062
Area:   Nezi Field
Context Type:   Surface
Title:   Floor
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1103
Context:   6062
Page:   0
Date:   2009/04/10
Stratum:   70% (sub-rounded fine-coarse pebbles, tabular angular cobbles, tile, ceramics)
Description:   The soil color is dark greenish yellow. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:   We are excavating a lense of soil revealed by the removal of threshold 5919 and walls 10076 and 10077. after removing two deposits that seemed to be fill for those structures (6040 and 6051) we have come to a packed earth floor from a pre-existing structure, cut to the south by robbing trench 6048 to the E by pier cut 6066 and to the W by pier cut 6065. removal of floor 6062 revealed another packed earth floor (=deposit 6063).
Context Pottery:   Fineware. premedieval9 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. amphora. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. pitcher. 2 handles. ; Coarseware. dish. 1 rim.
Pottery Summary:   3 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    103 frag(s) 1.98 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    26 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   iron nail square shank 1; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).
Period:   Byzantine
Chronology:   beginning of 12th
Grid:   280.95-278.59E, 1026.4-1027.1N
XMin:   278.59
XMax:   280.95
YMin:   1026.4
YMax:   1027.1
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   85.42-85.5m.
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Dan Leon, Ben Sullivan (2009-04-23 to 2009-04-24)