Title: | Frankish Coin Hoard | |
Supervisor: | Michael Laughy | |
Category: | Coins | |
Description: | West and adjacent to Modern Wall 5, we excavated 12th-13th c. A.D. fill, in some places a half meter deep or more. The fill was remarkably uniform in content throughout. Typical pottery included: fine sgraffito; slip painted ware; inscribed ware; plain glaze; brown and green glaze; polychrome glaze; Byzantine lamp fragments; coarse wares; and cooking wares. Within this fill, we discovered a slightly scattered hoard of 43 coins. At the time of this summary, the legible coins are Frankish, and date to the early 13th c. A.D. Coins: ΒΘ-96; ΒΘ-98 -128; ΒΘ-135 -145 Pottery lots: T 141, T 143 Notebook: ΒΘ VIII Baskets: 43, 57; pp. 1557, 1587 X-Section: pp. 1460, 1500 Grid: K/6,9-3/5,9 Elevation: 54.544-54.111m. | |
Contents: | Lot T 131: amphora toe; coarse handles, body sherds, rims, bases; cooking ware; combed ware; ridged ware; slip painted; inscribed sgraffito; Byzantine lamp; monochrome sgraffito; polychrome sgraffito; monochrome glaze; brown and green ware; plain glaze. sherds: 1824 "classical black glaze": 38 Lot T 143: fine sgraffito; slip painted; inscribed ware; plain glaze; brown and green glaze; polychrome glaze; Byzantine lamp fragments; coarse handles, rims, bases, body sherds; cooking ware; earlier finewares; ridged ware; combed ware; amphorae fragments; bone. sherds: 2037 "classical black glaze": 44 | |
Chronology: | 12th-13th c. A.D. | |
Date: | 20 July-6 August 2010 | |
Section: | ΒΘ | |
Grid: | K/7,8-3/5,7 | |
K/6,9-3/5,9 | ||
Elevation: | 54.544-54.111m. | |
Masl: | 54.111-54.539m. | |
References: | Report: 2010 Excavations |