I am generally happy with this,
but mind you, to fall back on my earlier 'off the cuff' responce of railbed as structure in the US lexicon, an earthwork
would also be a structure in the American thesaurus.... and you see where that get's us...
20/02/2003 17:01:54, "Iles, Peter" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>
> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:01:54 -0000
> From: "Iles, Peter" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Subject:Re: [FISH] Evidence term
> To: [log in to unmask]
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>
> A term along the lines of 'Site', 'Man-made Site' or 'Man-made feature' (if
> we're allowed to use the M word) seems a useful catch-all for all those
> oddities that we can't classify otherwise, but if it is used as a top-level
> term in a thesaurus when you search on it you may get everything else as
> well ...
>
> In practice most of us will be using multiple terms anyway and/or searching
> on the site type before sub-classifying with the evidence term.
>
> Finally Edmund emailed:
>
>
> > I think the most difficult evidence example I've come across was what to
> use for some Roman grafitti on the wall of a stone quarry. I've not really
>
> reconciled myself to
>
> > Modified Surface which is what we came up with - ity doesn't really
> capture the meaning very well.
>
>
> How about this one - a 1939-45 civil defence notice painted directly on the
> wall of a building in Preston (EWS for Emergency Water Supply, similar to
> the sort of thing in CBA 2001 C20th defenses in Britain revised ed fig.33b
> p.72) where virtually all the paint has peeled off and the sign is only
> visible as a negative image in the grime on the wall - "absence of evidence
> is not evidence of absence" or something ...
>
> Pete Iles, Lancs SMR
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