Ed Harris himself applied the matrix to standing buildings very early 
on.when he was working with Martin Biddle who was heavily into 
Renaissance architetcure. I haven't read the Harris book since it was 
first published but I think Harris uses Camber Castle as an example in 
the book..


paul

Boyer, Jeffrey, DCA wrote:

>Greg,
>How do you extend its use to standing structures?
>Jeff
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>Jeffrey L. Boyer, RPA
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>From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY on behalf of Greg Jackman
>Sent: Sun 10/16/2005 7:24 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Harris Matrix
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>I tend to agree with other discussants that there is little to be gained
>from colouring or otherwise laboriously keying sections or matrices
>simply in order to represent some perceived visual characteristic.  Such
>diagrams are schematic representations of stratigraphic relationships
>defined by archaeologists, not photographic snapshots of some kind of
>objective truth.  We do actually have a 'shading key' for Port Arthur,
>but with the increasing use of computers, CAD etc., for representing
>stratigraphy, the use of simple illustrative coding is being relegated
>in favour of a range of other phenomenological attributes that can be
>electronically linked to the drawing.
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>We also use the Harris matrix system as a standard method, and as Iain
>has pointed out, extend its use to standing structures where it
>accommodates excavation, extant recording and historical information.
>After all, how often does one work on a building where there may be no
>surviving evidence of a feature but people remember it.
>
>Greg Jackman
>ARCHAEOLOGY MANAGER
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>Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority
>Port Arthur
>Tasmania
>Australia  7182
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>From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>paul.courtney2
>Sent: Monday, 17 October 2005 6:37 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Harris Matrix
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>As far as UK is concerned systematic open area excavation was introduced
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>at Wharram Percy by John Hurst and his colleagues I guess at the end of
>the 1950s. Jack  Golson (subseuently ANU in Australia) was sent off to
>Denmark to learn the method from Axel Steensberg who was digging rural
>medieval sites. When I started digging as a schoolboy in the late 1960s
>it was perhaps not universal but pretty standard on sites of all periods
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>when one had any resources. The 1970s saw the Chris Musson, Bill
>Britnell  and Graeme Guilbert strip big areas of Iron Age hillforts and
>Francis Pryor huge prehistoric sites on the fen edge gravels. A lot of
>people experimented with new methods like using levelled plans to
>reconstrct sections at will and digging features the way they were
>infilled minmising dug sections. The big shift was winter digging in
>towns and the creation of full-time excavation units. This created its
>own problems such as the increasing expense of urban excavtions eg from
>shoring alone and the build up of publication backlogs. A far as
>colouring goes I think hardly anyone has time certainly not in the
>commercial world.
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>geoff carver wrote:
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>>that's one of those things i find hard to document; other sources
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>(barker?) say open area came from some of van gennep's work in the
>netherlands... maybe the dutch started it, but no one read dutch
>reports, the danish caught on/reinvented the wheel, & it spread from
>there...?
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>>martin carver & a few other critix don't like it cuz it is so
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>systematic - strictly ordinal -
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>>i'm also looking at a case where the matrix & context sheets were
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>introduced (by london exiles in the early 1990s) then discarded for
>something i find mind-bogglingly complex...
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>>"paul.courtney2" <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:
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>>>style of excavation but there was a move away from sections as open
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>>>excavation (adopted from Danish rural excavations) became the norm.
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