property assignment · assign_bi_phase_bi_wilburton_plateau
assign_bi_phase_bi_wilburton_plateau
Absolute chronology remains broader than a single typological boundary because calibrated ranges, sample histories or association quality limit precision.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
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Research description
Absolute chronology remains broader than a single typological boundary because calibrated ranges, sample histories or association quality limit precision.
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports assignment
An Independent Chronology for British Bronze Age Metalwork: The Results of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Programme — Stuart Needham, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, David Coombs, Caroline Cartwright, Paul Pettitt (1997)Presents 46 radiocarbon measurements on organics physically associated with metalwork and revises Middle to Late Bronze Age phase chronology.
Locator: Abstract; pp. 55–107; chronological synthesis tables - supports · supports assignment
History of Bronze Age research in Scotland, including summary chronologies — Scottish Archaeological Research Framework (2012)Provides explicit southern British and Scottish phase tables and cautions that southern British chronology cannot simply be transferred to Scotland.
Locator: Sections 1.2 and 1.2.5, Tables 1 and 2
Referenced records
- Radiocarbon plateau or broad calibration affected · property
- Wilburton metalwork phase · entity