About the Database

Site Table

Site Relationship Diagram

Site Relationship Diagram

Field Name: Project ID Number

Field Name: Institution
Authority Terms:

  1. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
  2. Corporation for Jefferson’s Poplar Forest
  3. Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary
  4. Fairfield Foundation
  5. Jamaica National Heritage Trust
  6. James River Institute for Archaeology, Inc.
  7. Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory
  8. Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association
  9. MWC/CHP/RELMA (Mary Washington College’s Center for Historic Preservation and the Robert E. Lee Memorial Association
  10. Nevis Conservation and Historical Society
  11. SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology
  12. Syracuse University
  13. The Ladies’ Hermitage Association
  14. The University of Virginia Library: Morven GH
  15. Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  16. University of West Indies
  17. Washington and Lee
  18. WMCAR (William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research

Field Name: Project Name
Authority Terms:

  1. 1809 Stone House
  2. 44JC298
  3. Ashcoombs Quarter, 18CV362
  4. Building c (Joinery)
  5. Building i (Carpenter’s Shop)
  6. Building L
  7. Building O
  8. Building R
  9. Building S
  10. Building T
  11. Cabin 3 West
  12. Chapline Place, 18CV344
  13. Elizabeth Hemings Site
  14. Fairfield Quarter
  15. House 14
  16. House 15
  17. House 16
  18. House 24
  19. House 26
  20. House 37
  21. House for Families
  22. Jessups I Village
  23. Jessups II Village
  24. KES
  25. Middleburg Quarter
  26. Mona Village
  27. MRS 2
  28. NAVAIR, 18ST642
  29. New River I Village
  30. New River II Village
  31. North Hill
  32. Palace Lands Quarter
  33. Papine Village
  34. Pope Site
  35. Quarter
  36. Richneck Quarter
  37. Site 7
  38. Site 8
  39. Smith’s Shop/Nailery
  40. South Cabin
  41. ST116
  42. Stewart-Watkins
  43. The Spring Village
  44. Triple South
  45. Triplex Middle
  46. Triplex North
  47. Utopia-2
  48. Utopia-3
  49. Utopia-4
  50. West Kitchen Yard
  51. Yard Cabin

Field Name: Region
Authority Terms:

  1. Chesapeake
  2. Jamaica
  3. Nevis
  4. Tennessee
  5. St. Kitts
  6. South Carolina

Field Name: County
Authority Terms:

  1. Albemarle County
  2. Bedford County
  3. Berkeley County
  4. Calvert County
  5. Davidson County
  6. Fairfax County
  7. Gloucester County
  8. Henrico County
  9. James City County
  10. Louisa County
  11. Prince Georges County
  12. Southampton County
  13. St. Andrew Parish
  14. St. Ann Parish
  15. St. James Parish
  16. St. James Windward Parish
  17. St. John Parish
  18. St. Mary’s County
  19. St. Thomas Parish
  20. Trelawney Parish
  21. Westmoreland County

Field Name: State

  1. Jamaica
  2. Maryland
  3. Nevis
  4. South Carolina
  5. St. Kitts
  6. Tennessee
  7. Virginia

Field Name: Place Name
Authority Terms:

  1. Ashcombs Quarter
  2. Chapline Place
  3. Fairfield
  4. Governor’s Land
  5. Jessups
  6. Kingsmill
  7. Middleburg
  8. Mona
  9. Monticello
  10. Montpelier
  11. Mount Vernon
  12. NAVAIR
  13. New River
  14. Papine
  15. Pope
  16. Poplar Forest
  17. Seville
  18. Stewart Castle
  19. Stratford Hall
  20. The Hermitage
  21. Upper Rawlins
  22. Utopia
  23. Williamsburg
  24. Wilton

Field Name: Beginning Date (of site occupation)

  1. 3rd-quarter 18th century
  2. ca. 1770
  3. ca. 1805
  4. First Quarter 19th Cent.

Field Name: End Date (of site occupation)

  1. ca. 1795
  2. ca. 1830
  3. Mid-20th Cent.

Field Name: State Site Number

Note: This is the site designation in the Smithsonian Trinomial System (e.g.44WM33).

  1. 18CV0344
  2. 18CV0362
  3. 18ST0642
  4. 38BK0038
  5. 44AB0089
  6. 44AB0438
  7. 44AB0442
  8. 44AB0465
  9. 44AB0466
  10. 44AB0469
  11. 44AB473
  12. 44AB89
  13. 44FX0762
  14. 44GL0024
  15. 44JC0032
  16. 44JC0298
  17. 44JC0546
  18. 44JC0787
  19. 44PG114
  20. 44SN0180
  21. 44ST0116
  22. 44WB0052
  23. 44WB0090

Field Name: Unit of Measurement
Authority Terms:

  1. Feet
  2. Meters

Field Name: Drainage
Authority Terms:

  1. Atlantic Ocean
  2. Big Sandy River
  3. Caribbean Sea
  4. Chesapeake Bay
  5. Chowan River
  6. Cumberland River
  7. Dismal Swamp
  8. James River
  9. New River
  10. Patuxent River
  11. Potomac/Shenandoah River
  12. Rappahanock River
  13. Rivanna River
  14. Roanoke River
  15. Tennessee River
  16. York River

Field Name: Site Soils

Field Name: Nearest Water Source

Field Name: Distance from Water Source

Field Name: Elevation Type
Authority Terms:

  1. Local
  2. Above Sea level

Field Name: Azimuth Orientation of Local Grid

Note: This field records the amount, measured in decimal degrees from true north, by which the y-axis, or base line of the local coordinate system in which the site was dug, deviates from true North.

Field Name: Total Area Excavated

Field Name: Total Convex Hull

The statistical definition for a convex hull is a set of points that form the smallest convex set that includes all of those points. In this case, a convex hull indicates the total area that the site based on the perimeter of the excavated units.

The convex hull of a site would look like this:

Convex Hull

Convex Hull

Field Name: Dates Excavated

Field Name: Artifact Repository
Authority Terms:

  1. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
  2. Corporation for Jefferson’s Poplar Forest
  3. Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary
  4. Jamaica National Heritage Trust
  5. James River Institute for Archaeology, Inc.
  6. Maryland Archaeological Conservation (MAC) Laboratory
  7. Mary Washington College’s Center for Historic Preservation
  8. Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association
  9. Nevis Historical and Conservation Society
  10. Rosewell Foundation Archaeology Lab
  11. Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  12. Washington and Lee University
  13. William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research

Field Name: Added By

Field Name: Date Added

Field Name: Changed By

Field Name: Date Changed

Field Name: Project Notes

Field Name: Site Abstract

Field Name: Geo Datum
Authority Terms:

  1. NAD27
  2. NAD83
  3. Not Applicable

Note: This field specifies the geodetic datum used in the coordinate system specified below in the Geo Coordinate System Field.

Field Name: Geo Coordinate System
Authority Terms:

  1. Local/Site Specific
  2. SPC Virginia North Zone
  3. SPC Virginia South Zone
  4. SPC North Carolina
  5. SPC Maryland
  6. UTM Zone 16
  7. UTM Zone 17
  8. UTM Zone 18

Field Name: Northing Geo Coordinate of Local Datum

Field Name: Easting Geo Coordinate of Local Datum

Field Name: Vertical Geo Coordinate of Local Datum

Note: These three fields locate the local site datum in the real-earth coordinate system specified above (e.g. SPC Virginia North). The local site datum is the point on the site that serves as the origin (x=0, y=0, z=0) of the Cartesian coordinate system in which the site was excavated. For example, if elevations for the site are given above sea level, then the value for “Vertical Coordinate of Local Datum” should be 0. If the elevations for the site are given relative to an arbitrary 0-point on the site, then “Vertical Coordinate of Local Datum” should be the (estimated) elevation above sea level of that local 0-point.