British Museum Bronze Age Index Drawer A9

This application will help the British Museum's curator of the Bronze Age collections, Neil Wilkin, to make available a huge card catalog of British prehistoric metal artefacts discovered in the 19th and 20th century. This information has long been known to be an extremely important untapped resource. Metal finds are not only crucial forms of evidence for dating Britain's prehistoric past, but also tell us a great deal about prehistoric society and economy. Digitising the thousands of objects in this catalog will make these records publicly available via their incorporation into the Portable Antiquities Scheme website. The result will be the largest national database of prehistoric metal finds anywhere in the world and a near comprehensive view of what we currently know about such finds in the UK.

The cards have been scanned and uploaded to Flickr, and it is from there that the current application will retrieve and manipulate the scans. These cards contain some fairly standardised kinds of information: about where the artefact was discovered, its dimensions, a longer description of what it looks like, etc.

What the research team would like people to do, is to transcribe the details from each section on the card into some pre-determined fields, and also to attempt to geo-reference the object via its place of discovery.

Thank you!

Lucy Ellis, exiledfrommaine, vtri, Nicky Moxey, Pamela Holland, Hugh Fiske, Thorrin Jonsson, Michael, Susanne Jaillet, Belinda Elizabeth Singe, mumkin, Johnathan Farris, Jared Obermeyer, Kimberly Donne Snyder, Katie Evans, Jerry Glover, Kate Dougherty, Cheryl Ellsworth, Randall Carruthers, Camila Paglione, Caroline, Caroline Chestnutt, Peter Helliwell, Walter Butler, Adam Patnoe, Alejandro Crespo, Maria Törmä, Matthew, Elaine Dale, Katy Emslie, Jeff Okazaki, Melissa Vette Wobig, Amy McDermott, Nicholas Yarbrough, Tracey Logan, Laura B, Jennifer Speer, Sarah Roberts, Karin Vermooten, Eric Crawford, Erin Chapman, Bob Nebrig, Andrew Garrison, Ross Blau, Carrie Benjamin, Matthew Beckett, Matthew Bendert, David Levinson, Jessica Byler, Juan Ysidro Tineo Alvarado, Bianca Cabrera, Latifa Walker, Valeska Becker, Rebecca Gunnill, Joellen mcGann, Holden, Craig Horton, Sara Gibson, Dina Fathalla, scruffyarcher, Maria van Duinhoven, Glenda Robinson, Julia Pope, Margaret Ellen Joy, Susan Nash, Nina Sharman, Jane Fellows, Luis Kohl, John Marr, Louise Amor, Helena Fox, Sonsoles García González, Shane Grant, Denis Antoine, Ann Silvester, John Strangfeld, Mary Mansfield Blackman, Romilly Collins, James Babbage, Heather Bidzinski, Jodie Bee, Gill Pettitt, Sarah, Raest Wylde, John Boothby, Avellana Teresa Ross, Charles T. G. Clarke, Louise Panton and other anonymous contributors for completing the application.

This project is on behalf of