Is graph paper out?  I was trained on it, and use it to this day, though
usually for fairly simple plans and profiles, in single units.

D. Babson.
 

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Subject: Drawing film

The use of transparent drawing film must have been a huge help in
digging stratified sites because it allowed the multiple overlay of
plans without the distortion and other problems  of tracing paper- a key
aspect of  open area excavation techniques on stratified sites from hill
forts and monasteries to urban tenements. I asked a few colleagues  this
morning and we couldn't fix its introduction into archaeological use
(?1960s) but remembered graph paper still being use in the early 70s on
some sites and drawing film on others presumably with more money.


paul