Hi Barbara!

I think you might direct your question to the Archaeological Ceramic
Building Materials Group.  The group, based mainly in the UK, has been
working on producing guidelines and standards for the retention and
recording "cbm".  You will find their website at:

http://www.tegula.freeserve.co.uk/acbmg.html

I have a set of guidelines I'm creating for Michigan Tech's work at the West
Point Foundry based upon our needs at that site.  My criteria are nowhere
near complete, but I've just started working with an undergraduate on a
catalog of brick reference samples.  I'd love to hear what you decide upon
for the Presidio.

Cheers,
Tim

On 10/17/03 6:53 PM, "Barbara Voss" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> With apologist for cross-postings:
>
> Dear HistArch-ers,
>
> I'd appreciate your assistance - I am working with the Presidio Trust and
> the NPS to develop a protocol regarding recovery and curation of tejas and
> ladrillos (roof and floor construction tiles) related to an ongoing
> excavation program at the Presidio of San Francisco. Would you be willing
> to share:
>
> 1) to what extent do you recover construction ceramics in the field during
> excavation for analysis - and what criteria do you use to determine what
> to recover for analysis and what to discard in the field, and
>
> 2) following full lab analysis, what construction ceramics do you curate,
> and what criteria are used to determine what to keep permanently and what
> to toss.
>
> We are trying to get a sense of what are current "best practices" as a
> model for our protocol.
>
> Info about the excavation project for those who are interested is
> available at www.stanford.edu/group/presidio.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Barb Voss
>
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> Barbara L. Voss, Assistant Professor
> Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology
> Building 110, Room 112-T
> Stanford University
> Stanford, California 94305-2145
> phone:  650-725-6884
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Program in Industrial History and Archaeology
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