the last time i drew one i had 800-900 boxes in my area
it was a composite of 7 or 8 cellars (medieval, baroque, 19th century & world war 2)
i did the small bits by hand, but would have gone even crazier than i am often accused of being had i tried to do the whole that way
even then it was difficult getting someone to print my area matrix...
i think we tend to have more stratigraphy out here or something; isn't that the reasons folk on your side of the pond use to explain why they dig by arbitrary levels...?
& lord i know i made mistakes; being the only archaeologist with a crew usually composed of an ever-shifting mass of 5 or 6 "workers"

"praetzellis" <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:
> HISTarchers,
> 
> However, NOT using a matrix program forces the archaeologist into a deeper
> understanding of the stratigraphic complexity of their site. Being forced to
> go through the process of working out these relationships by hand means that
> you truly understand the site and can spot apparent stratigraphic
> impossibilities that are (dare I say it?) mistakes on the part of person in
> the field.