Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 226

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 226
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Road
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1108
Context:		226
Date:		2014/05/08
Stratum:		80% of rounded and sub-rounded medium and coarse pebbles; angular cobbles; rounded boulders; ceramics; tiles; marble fagments; iron fragments; bones
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is hard. The soil is moderately sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		We started excavating the surface of the road to the N of the drain. The surface was characterized by pebbles, cobbles, and tiles, mixed with sandy silt. This road was fully revealed by the removal of road 193 and substratum layers 209 and 212. It is a large flat road that has a uniform consistency. The most abundant inclusions were stones, tiles, and marble fragments. To the north the road was cut by a modern water pipe; to the east the road was cut by the foundation trench 65 of wall 51. After sieving approximately 15% of the context we found no coins or any other material that might help us determine a precise date for road 226. Therefore we stopped sieving and continued with the big pick. After excavating approximately 1/3 of the context our pickman found a coin (2014-94) to the NE part of our context and a bronze fragment, so we decided to start sieving again. The surface of the road that was revealed consisted of different lenses (elevations: 86.06, 86.01, 86.02, 85.95). The different lenses are also divergent in nature. The NW part has reddish brown soil and has less pebbles than road 226. The NE part has dark brown soil and has a softer compaction than the other lenses. The SE part has more pebbles and cobbles. Almost in the middle of our context there is a greyish layer, which seems strongly cemented.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. 11th century4 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)1 rim. ; Fineware. pre-mediaeval58 bodysherds. ; Coarseware.
Pottery Summary:		63 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		715 frag(s) 8.4 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		82 frag(s) 0.69 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		bronze, sheet, 1; glass clear green, bs, 8, base, 3; bronze, flat strip, 2; schist, strip, 1; iron, nail, head, 2, shank, 2; bronze, lump, 1; glass, slag, 3; glass clear blue, bs 2, base, 1; glass clear blueish, bs, 2; Lapis Lacedaimonius, 1; iron, lumps, 17
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		Late 13th century
Grid:		98.32-95.7E, 1064.9-1071.2N
XMin:		95.7
XMax:		98.32
YMin:		1064.9
YMax:		1071.2
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.96-86.13m.
References:		Coin: 2014 94