Records

• Old Context CodeCH06SR0837
• DefinitionCourtyard, trench with stones and clayey soil
• DescriptionA dark brown clayey soil with medium sized (10-20 cm in diameter) stones. The dimensions are approximately 80 cm (NW-SE) and 3.6 M (E-SW), running from wall 296 to the wall trench 0762. The context/cut is perpendicular to walls 296 and 50. Artifacts including tile, ceramics and bone were prevelant throughout context, but especially concentrated near wall 0296.
• ObservationsTook topo/spotheights that approximate the extent of the context. Cut into bedrock on the SE edge and context 0772 on the NW edge. Adam frequently refers to this context as the robbers trench. It covered 0788 over the majority of the trench but approximately 70-80 cm from wall 0296 it covers bedrock.
• Dating Elements8-10th century ceramics

• Munsell Colour
  • 10YR 5/3

• Room
  • N/A
• Area
  • Courtyard

• • CH06SR_759

    Covers

  • CH06SR_763

    Cuts

  • CH06SR_822

    Cuts

• • CH06SR_837

• • Covers

    CH06SR_788

  • Fills

    CH06SR_841

  • Covers

    CH06SR_999

• Same As

  None linked.

Total = 216

Faunal Species

	Total
Unidentifiable	5
Domestic Pig	18
Fish	2
Scallop	4
Domestic Sheep/Goat	66
Bird	5
Domestic Cattle	28
Dog	2
Domestic Goat	1
Cockle family	1
Mussels	2
Oyster	78
Domestic Sheep	4

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Total = 4

Birds

	Total
Gallus gallus f. Domestica	2
Corvus monedula	1
Anas platyrhynchos	1

Total = 380

Ceramic Class

	Total
Storage	3
Amphora	267
Cookware	23
Fineware	87

Total = 380

Ceramic Type

	Total
Closed storage vessel	3
Red clay (Zeest - 72, 73, 75)	2
Light clay (Zeest 104-105; types Е-F-Shelov)	3
Sinope	5
Colchis	5
Unidentified Hellenistic/Roman amphora	9
Class 1 ("waisted")	16
Class 2 ("carrot")	27
Class 3 (Zeest-100)	19
Class 4 (LRA 3-Riley)	3
ADSV, type V	37
Class 12 (LRC 1-Riley)	11
Class 18 (LRA 2-Riley)	1
Class 22 (Zeest-95; LRA 4-Riley)	7
Unidentified Early Byzantine amphora	2
Class 24	64
Class 36	4
Class 41	49
Class 42 (Gunsenin-I)	2
Class 52	1
Handmade cookware	5
Wheelmade cookware	18
Hellenistic or Roman plain fineware jar	1
Middle Byzantine plain fineware jar	2
Unidentified plain fineware	67
Red-slip	12
Black gloss	3
Brown gloss	2

Total = 380

Ceramic Date

	Total
2nd-4th c. AD	2
5th-7th c. AD	123
12th-13th c. AD	1
9th-11th c. AD	121
Roman (Ceramic date)	15
Hellenistic (Ceramic date)	13
Hellenistic/Roman	12