Carol,
Most archaeologists in this country use the metric system when measuring.
The only time I found people using inches was at Wharram Percy in Yorkshire.
At 01:47 PM 9/5/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>This may be mundane to some (many?) of you...but I was wondering (having
>perused Noel-Hume's If Pottery Could Talk the other day)...how the rest of
>you...out there...measure your historic artifacts...etc. We always use
>metrics for prehistoric stuff (artifacts, units, etc.)...but have the
>policy (out here in San Diego) that English measure is used when dealing
>with historic stuff. Yet NH measured the plates, etc. in centimeters. Is
>that just British...or is it done regionally in the US also?
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