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Aids to the drawing of finds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Philip Kenrick
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Antiquity , Volume 45 , Issue 179 , September 1971 , pp. 205 - 209
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1971

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Philip Kenrick is a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, now reading for the Diploma in Classical Archaeology. He has spent some time assisting in the preparation of excavation reports in the British School at Rome, and here describes two devices used in the British School to speed up the burdensome task of drawing the finds for publication. We hope, later this year, to publish a note on another such invention for measuring potsherd rim angles on the ‘Do-it-yourself’ principle, which has reached us from Harvard.

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* The Grant Projector, which has recently been brought to my notice, operates on the same principle as the instrument that I describe, and perhaps deserves wider publicity amongst archaeologists. It is very much larger than my projector, having a screen about 18 in. (45cm.) square, and a variable scale of reproduction. It can be used for the drawing of small objects, though it is designed primarily for the enlargement and reduction of drawings: a disadvantage is that it develops considerable heat around the object. The present price of the basic instrument is £288, and it is manufactured by the Grant Production Co., 4 Rathbone Place, London w.i.