A Comparative Archaeological Study of Colonial Chesapeake Culture (www.chesapeakearchaeology.org)

• About the Project
• Site Summaries
  • Sandys
  • Carter’s Grove CG8
  • Reverend Buck
  • Rich Neck Plantation
  • Jordan’s Journey
  • Old Chapel Field
  • Clifts Plantation
  • Camden
  • Posey
  • Mattapany
  • Compton
  • Patuxent Point
  • King’s Reach
  • Chaney’s Hills
  • Chalkley
  • Burle's Town Land
  • Homewood's Lot
  • Bennett’s Point
• Map
• Interpretations and Papers
• Database
• Downloads
• Technical Data

Database Specifications

The comprehensive artifact database was designed to provide, as much as possible for the disparate databases, a single set of tables that could be used for basic searching and quantative analysis.

The database (ChesapeakeSites.MDB) is designed in Microsoft Access. It includes two main tables—the artifact catalog and the context record table, along with several authority lookup tables and the artifact count summaries developed by Catherine Alston. The artifact catalog table contains over 148,000 records from the 18 sites. The context table contains some 12,600 records.

Database Glossary

Glossary of fields used in the database.

Database Field Mappings

Fields in the database.

Coding Conventions for Related Fields

Tables of coding conventions used in cataloguing data in related fields.

Authority Tables

List of standardized terms for the principal fields in the artifact catalog. Use these lists to help with designing on-line searches, as well as to structure queries if you download the database.

The Artifact Count Spreadsheet is also available in ChesapeakeSites.MDB as the table ArtifactCounts.