Hi Robin
SMR=Sites and Monuments Record (generally county-based)
EBA = Early Bronze Age
LBA = Late Bronze Age
I hope that's CTF
Pete
(cleared the fog)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Phillips" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: [FISH] Period classifications
> Dear colleagues,
>
> In message <001f01c1dfb5$e82e2f20$9f477ad5@z5m9t1>
> Peter Muckle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > You will always need a broad period field - don't mess with it by
> > sub-dividing. 1958 is an odd choice for modern though - is it a typo?
from
> > 1918?. Or something to do with Sir Cliff Richard's first No.1?
>
> As a total amateur member of this mailing list I don't expect to
contribute
> frequently, but could I appeal to contributors to make sure their notes
are
> comprehensible to the LAY person! It is surely normal to expand an
acronym
> the FIRST time you use it in a message. SMR, EBA, LBA, mean very little
to
> me unless you expand them. The different training of architectural
> historians and archaeology staff is only ONE reason for
misunderstanding...
>
> So if you really WISH to be understood by others, could you just spend
that
> little extra time on the keyboard?
>
> Yours sincerely, Robin.
>
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