The Database
The Overland Trade Project enters the data from the brokage books into an inter-relational database.
The database includes the following information: day, date, month, carrier forename, standard surname, carter of/place, items paid custom only, carts in, items in, carts out, leaving towards, items out, no. indeterminate, no. designated units, owner forename, owner surname, owner of/place.
Some of the outputs include charts, graphs and maps, examples of which can be seen on the preliminary results page. One of the products of the project is a volume in the Southampton Records Series (see example below).
A Typical Page of Brokage Book SC5/5/8 for 1447-48 produced for a volume in the Southampton Records Series