Re-examining the lives of an 18th century garrison at Admiral’s/Fort Point, Trinity, Newfoundland
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Abstract
Located in Trinity Newfoundland, the Admiral’s Point fortifications were constructed by British forces in the mid 1740s. During the British occupation of the site, it underwent numerous changes, being built and improved during King George’s (1744-1748) and the Seven Years (1756-1773) Wars, before being destroyed by the French in 1762. The fortifications were then revived during the Revolutionary period and Napoleonic Wars (roughly 1790s to 1815) before being finally abandoned in the late 1810s. Admiral’s Point represents an important part of Newfoundland’s military and social history as a key defensive feature within the landscape of British settlement on the island; archaeologically, the site contained a significant assemblage of 18th and 19th century material culture. Despite numerous excavations at the site, a comprehensive study of the archaeological features, landscape and artifact assemblage has never been completed. This project entails a detailed analysis of the material culture dating to the military occupation of the site, a review of documentary sources and a study of the site’s landscape and archaeological features with the aim of creating a more complete understanding of the function that this site played in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Special consideration will be given to the agency of individuals, particularly the enlisted ranks who are often neglected in the sources, both primary and secondary. Consideration will also be given to the often-complex relationship between the civilian and military populations of Trinity. Through this study, our understanding of Admiral’s Point will be situated within the larger context of British North America, showing how the garrison participated in the culture and society of their time.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".