MODERN DEBRIS. 3 grenade pins; 1 fr. barbed wire; 1 rusted iron object (modern?), bent at right angle with narrow tapering end widening to hollow open end (p.L. 0.085, max. Th. 0.008).
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POTTERY. Byzantine (2 frr., 0.007 kg): 1 rim: bowl? with pointed lip and vertical rim, interior and rim have yellow slip and yellow glaze (13th century); 1 body: interior has yellow slip and yellowish green
glaze (13th–14th century).
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POTTERY. Greek (9 frr., 0.112 kg): 3 Corinthian fine ware (1 Hexamilia kantharos handle/body; 2 open-shape bases), 1 Corinthian coarse ware (lekane body); 5 Corinthian A/A′ amphora.
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POTTERY. Roman (1,796 frr., 7.98 kg): standard colluvial assemblage, date-range to Late Roman.
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SMALL FINDS. Glass (19 frr.): 1 rim/body, light bluish green (conical bowl, KM401); 1 base, light yellow with a tinge of green (goblet with hollow knobbed stem, KM400); 1 base, light greenish yellow (conical base with folded tubular ring (goblet; from KM400?); 1 rim, light blue (inwardly folded, tubular lip); 5 body, light yellowish green, thin; 3 body, light green, thick; 2 body, light blue, thick; 1 body, bluish colorless; 1 body, colorless; 1 handle, green (thin strap); 1 base, blue (concave bottom); 1 windowpane, colorless (cast?).
Explanation of deposition
Byzantine-Modern colluvium and topsoil over area of Octagon, combined with mixed fill in WWII ditch with foxholes cutting down into Octagon.