ABSTRACT
A Geographical Information Systems (GIS) programme developed in Bermuda along these lines in 1990, and a Geospatial Information Committee was formed to help coordinate activities and assist other groups with their GIS projects. One of these was the Bermuda Zoological Society's Habitat Mapping Survey and this heavily influenced the Bermuda National Trust's Archaeological Research Committee in developing a heritage-based GIS survey of the island to help with the management of known historic sites. Lt. Thomas Hurd was sent to survey Bermuda in 1789 to record hydrographic features, water depths and tidal information, as well as to locate navigational routes through the reefs. In the summer of 2008, the Bermuda National Trust's Archaeological Research Committee coordinated an archaeological study of St Peter's Church. The archaeological work completed here demonstrates that there is still a vast amount of information that can be learned from Verdmont as each excavation sheds new light on the house and its social organization.
