Some of our website users make use of the and might have noticed that a proportion of the findspots were inaccurate. We had coins in the sea and outside their specified county. These have now been cleaned up and relocated where needed; therefore making the resource more valid for researchers. I have also added the geographical district when a parish has been given. In due course, we will be uploading the East Leicestershire coin hoard and a couple of others.
To finish this task, you could say wasn’t exactly simple. We had grid references that were given the wrong grid square, reversed easting and northings and also a bug in the lat/long conversion script that I had been running. Using a variety of web mapping tools and the Ordnance Survey’s dataset of parish/district/county the CCI was realigned to what we have shown below in a Google Earth plot. If you have higher level access rights, you can produce these maps direct from any query. If you want to get access, contact me…
OpenCalais helped to tag this with: Google • web mapping tools
Possibly related posts: More database improvements • What’s goin’ on? • Quick search database fields/ plugin construction •
