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"JerryT" <cgjt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1166173739.597551.259950@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Tom McDonald skrev:
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> > On Dec 14, 4:51 pm, "IE_Json" <inger_e.johans...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > "tk" <kavan...@xxxxxxx> wrote in
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> > >
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> > > > Alan Crozier wrote:
> > > > > I have to translate the Swedish term "hackbord". It's a table
on which
> > > > > excavated soil can be spread so that you can comb through it
in search
> > > > > of objects of interest. The Swedish term means literally
"chopping
> > > > > table". What do you call it in English?
> > >
> > > > > Alan
> > >
> > > > Does it have a solid bottom? Why not just "table"? ("sorting
table"?)
> > >
> > > > Usually archies on this side of the pond use a rocker box with a
screen
> > > > bottom to sieve soil for artifacts/stuff
> > >
> > > > tktk
> > > look at the photo of two archaeologists are working using a
'hackbord' which
> > > is a type of table on which soil, sand etc can be comb/gone thru
carefully.http://hildebrand.raa.se/uv//projekt/vast/gotatunnel2001_02/v2
8.htm
> >
> > The soil in that image appears very cohesive, perhaps wet and/or
> > clayey. Certainly clumpy. I suspect it would be useless to try to
sieve
> > that stuff.
> >
> > In the sorting table shown, the point appears to be the same as
> > sieving, only using your hands (and tools?) to do the separating
rather
> > than the screen.
> >
> > I imagine that, in appropriate conditions, a rocker box would be
used,
> > too. Or are Scandihoovians just inveterate
doing-it-the-hard-way-ers?
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> Yes we like it hard...
> ...but we don't do it in the kitchen.
>
> http://www.imperial.cc.ca.us/ivc-dm/kitchen.htm
Thanks for this one, Jerry. I was going to use the term "sorting table"
and was pleased to see it here.
Alan
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