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Date:	Mon, 8 Sep 2003 00:54:54 -0700
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Subject:	Re: measuring historic materials, structures, etc
From:	Anita Cohen-Williams <[log in to unmask]>
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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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