The collection includes a suite of digital data organised by site/parcel and/or element. This includes digital images collected during fieldwork, consisting of photographs of the respective excavations and excavated remains, overhead views and panoramas, and aerial photographs. Some of these images were also used to create composite and rectified images, which form another element in the collection. Primary records generated during the fieldwork are also included, in the form of scanned context records, stratigraphic matrices, and field drawings (plans and sections). In addition, the section drawings were digitised during archive consolidation, forming another element of the collection. The fieldwork also generated a large body of survey data, and the collection includes GIS shape files, relating to site locations, stratigraphic remains, environmental data and selected finds.

Images (photographs and drawings) and data generated during post-excavation form another component. Many relate to the large assemblage of worked stone and wooden items from Stainton West, along with images of lithic microwear, polished thin sections of stone artefacts and pottery, ochre, prehistoric pottery, and images from a soil micromorphological study (at Stainton West and Knockupworth). Pollen diagrams are also included, whilst tables of the finds and environmental data, exported from the project database, form another component, along with project designs, radiocarbon-dating certificates and OxCal models, and a schema for a relational database. The relational database is available on the CNDR project website and contains full details of the context and finds data. An integral element of post-excavation was interpretation of this data and dissemination of the results in a popular publication, and academic monograph, which includes a series of appendices containing detailed specialist information. Therefore, digital copies of these publications are included in the collection. The popular publication and academic monograph can also be downloaded from OA’s Knowledge Hub. The physical (finds and paper) archive has been deposited at Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Castle Street, Carlisle CA3 8TP, and the digital collection contains copies of the box lists detailing the finds that have been deposited at this museum.