COIN: follis of Phocas from Antioch (605/606 CE; KC096).
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MODERN DEBRIS. 4 grenade pins, 2 frr. iron.
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POTTERY. Greek (8 frr., 0.021 kg): 8 Corinthian fine ware (1 cup/skyphos rim; 2 cup handles including Archaic–Classical kotyle/skyphos handle; 2 cup/pitcher bases; 1 plate/bowl base; 2 open-shape body).
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POTTERY. Roman (1,554 frr., 20.07 kg): standard colluvial assemblage, date-range to Late Roman.
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SMALL FINDS. Glass (36 frr.): 2 base/body, bluish green (hemispherical ribbed bowl, 524); 1 body/base, bluish colorless (small, deep, cylindrical bowl, 543); 1 body/base, light green with a tinge of blue (deep bowl with applied solid ring base, 583); 1 base, light greenish yellow (goblet, 635); 1 body/base, light greenish yellow (large globular flask, 650); 1 body, light blue, thick and flat (square bottle?); 2 rim, green (fire-polished lip); 1 rim, greenish colorless (flaring); 1 rim, light blue (fire-polished lip); 1 body, yellow, thin; 1 body, green, thick; 5 body, light green; 13 body, light blue; 4 body, colorless; 1 base, light green (folded, tubular ring base).
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SMALL FINDS. Metal: 8 total: 3 lead fishnet weights (705); 1 intact bronze nail (Type I; 734); 1 intact bronze nail (Type III; 741); 1 fr. bronze nail shank (p.L. 0.043, Th. 0.005); 2 lead strips including 1 cut into square: counter or gaming piece? (L./W. 0.019, Th. 0.004), and 1 bent into cylinder: fishnet weight (L. 0.022, Diam. 0.017).
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SMALL FINDS: Stone: 2 disks stopper or plug from bluish gray schistose marble (KM272) and breccia di Sciro (KM435).
Explanation of deposition
Byzantine-Modern colluvium and topsoil over area of Octagon, mixed with fill in WWII ditch with foxholes cutting down into Octagon.