| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6173 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Cleaning (dug in 1960s) | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 6173 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/04/28 | |
| Stratum: | 5% occasional cobbles and pottery | |
| Description: | The soil color is very dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | No top elevation taken (we had to enter an approximate elevation after). We wanted to determine if the rubble foundation 6148 continued to the north so that we could remove it and close the context. Therefore we removed the weeds and plastic layer put down a few years ago during the last major cleaning of this part of the site. The deposit appears t0 be fill from the 1960s excavation as it was a pit located at the exact corners of wall W55 and 10087. More digging had to be done to determine how deep the 60s trench extended - it slopes sharly down and cut in the foundation trench of Wall 10087. Thanasis believes thtat the bottom part of the pit was refilled by the excavators with the dirt that had originally been removed. The pit also cuts through a surface of some sort (perharps a floor*) which is preserved around the edges of the pit. Eventually we decided to stop digging and close the context (even though we didn't reach the bottom) because it kept going deeper and we had already spent a day and a half trying to figure this section out. Thanasis suggests the reason that it went so deeply is that it was from the 60s search for the Roman decumanus. * floor elevation: 84.10 at sw corner Notes June 19, 2009: This corner was originally excavated by Berg (NB 229). The corner was begun on June 9th, 1961 (p. 192, basket 30, LOT 689) and continued on June 10th. Berg stopped digging at a hard surface he found at 84.20m, where the foundation trenchs for W55 (Berg's 34) and 10086 (Berg's 27) were visibile. At this level they uncovered a skeleton laying in a dishevelled position and with its head under 10086 (see photo Vol. 18, 1960 II, p. 25: 61-15-3). Berg makes clear in his note book that the area would not be excavated any lower than their stopping point at 84.20m, the level of the skeleton. Our excavation has shown, however, that sometime later digging must have taken place, as an irregular pit cuts through the hard surface at which Berg stopped - we measured the surface as 84.10 and Berg stopped excavating at 84.20). The later digging cut through the foundation trench noted by Berg and continued down. It is unclear when this digging happened and who undertook it. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. stew pot as C-69-2471 rim. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 10 frag(s) 0.19 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 73 frag(s) 3.55 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 20 frag(s) 0.5 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Bone- mandible of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 1 example(s). | |
| Period: | No precise date (NPD) | |
| Chronology: | 6th c. | |
| Grid: | 280.9-279.38E, 1032.4-1033.7N | |
| XMin: | 279.38 | |
| XMax: | 280.9 | |
| YMin: | 1032.4 | |
| YMax: | 1033.7 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 83.27-84.3m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Martin Wells, Katie Rask, Dreya Mihaloew (2009-05-18 to 2009-05-19) |