PROJECT NOTES

This database is based on work carried out by Clough and Associates Ltd on the Britomart Transport Project in downtown Auckland, New Zealand. The ceramics recovered from this site comprised a substantial collection of late Victorian ceramics in a major colonial city. Mica Plowman carried out the analysis.

Once the Britomart information was entered, information from previous excavations was added. The availability and quality of information on these sites is variable but the goals of the project are to add as much data as possible from historic sites in New Zealand.

The project is based on PHP and MySQL technologies. It is primarily designed as a searchable image library to aid the identification of ceramic patterns for NZ archaeologists.

Click here to view the database structure (150k).

Details regarding the classification of ceramic data will be available here.

Information regarding the database and improvements will be added to this part of the site. Suggestions and bug fixes can be sent to Simon Bickler.

Future releases in development include:

• Additional information from recent North Island projects
• More data from older excavations
• Automated standard reports including graphs