A good worked example of the use of the Harris Matrix for standing
structures analysis is given in Davies, M., The Archaeology of Standing
Structures, Australian Historical Archaeology, 5, 1987, 54-64. The
article in Harris would probably be easier to get hold of in the States
though. I am happy to mail out a copy of the AHA article if anyone's
madly keen (Don't tell anyone Iain). The method is also outlined in the
forthcoming revised Port Arthur Archaeological Procedures Manual, which
we might put up on the web. If so I will post the link on Histarch.
Greg
Greg Jackman
ARCHAEOLOGY MANAGER
Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority
Port Arthur
Tasmania
Australia 7182
Ph: (03) 62 512 336
Fax: (03) 62 512 322
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-----Original Message-----
From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
David Bibby
Sent: Tuesday, 18 October 2005 4:29 AM
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Subject: Re: Harris Matrix
Also look at Heather M. Harvey "Structures as Stratified Remains" in
Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History Vol. 9 (1997) or
Martin Davies "The Application of the Harris Matrix of the Harris Matrix
to the Recording of Standing Structures" in Harris, Brown and Brown
(Eds.) "Practices of Archaeological Stratigraphy". But the application
of the Harris Matrix doesn't have to be restricted to Archaeology or
architectural history. Try it on an Automobil or (best of all) use it to
bring some order into the chaos on your desk top - then you will really
realise what it can do for you!
David Bibby
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:35:15 +0100
"paul.courtney2" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >Jeffrey L. Boyer, RPA
> >Office of Archaeological Studies
> >P.O. Box 2087
> >Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504
> >tel: 505.827.6343
> >fax: 505.827.3904
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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
> >
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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
> >
> >Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority
> >Port Arthur
> >Tasmania
> >Australia 7182
> >
> >Ph: (03) 62 512 336
> >Fax: (03) 62 512 322
> >
> >Visit our new website: www.portarthur.org.au
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
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> >paul.courtney2
> >Sent: Monday, 17 October 2005 6:37 AM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Harris Matrix
> >
> >As far as UK is concerned systematic open area excavation was
introduced
> >
> >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
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >geoff carver wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>that's one of those things i find hard to document; other sources
> >>
> >>
> >(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...?
> >
> >
> >>martin carver & a few other critix don't like it cuz it is so
> >>
> >>
> >systematic - strictly ordinal -
> >
> >
> >>i'm also looking at a case where the matrix & context sheets were
> >>
> >>
> >introduced (by london exiles in the early 1990s) then discarded for
> >something i find mind-bogglingly complex...
> >
> >
> >>"paul.courtney2" <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>style of excavation but there was a move away from sections as open
> >>>
> >>>
> >area
> >
> >
> >>>excavation (adopted from Danish rural excavations) became the norm.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
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