Koutsongila Stratum A3 [permalink]
Type
Deposit or Stratum
Description
Gradual natural accumulation of sediment that contains residual earlier material and material representing activity in area or nearby during Byzantine to Post-Byzantine eras.
Published as
Rife2022a, pp. 43-44, 141-142, fig. 2.3
Chronology comment
Early/Middle Byzantine-Early Modern
Explanation of deposition
Widespread colluvium across slope.
Soil matrix
Predominantly pale brown to light yellowish brown (7.5YR 5/3, 10YR 6/3, 6/4), somewhat loose, clayey to fine silt with many pebbles to gravel (1-3 cm range). Occasional white, compact, gravelly lenses from rills.
Stratigraphic associations
(TRA0701-003 = (TRA0701-005 + TRA0701-006)) [entire trench] = TRA0702-002 [north trench] = (TRA0804-003 + TRA0804-004 + TRA0804-005) [entire trench] = (TRA070506-003/TRA0706-008) [over bedrock, northeast trench] = (TRA0909-002 [northwest trench] = TRA0909-007 [northwest corner of trench])
Linked to

Locus TRA0701-003

Locus TRA0701-005

Locus TRA0701-006

Locus TRA0702-002

Locus TRA0804-003

Locus TRA0804-004

Locus TRA0804-005

Locus TRA0909-002

Locus TRA0909-007