Bronze AgeWorld atlas

property assignment · assign_bi_site_bi_flag_fen_wetland_bias

assign_bi_site_bi_flag_fen_wetland_bias

Waterlogging preserves organic and architectural evidence rarely visible at dryland sites, so richness cannot be read directly as exceptional social complexity.

Evidence confidence: high
Awaiting expert reviewBritain and Ireland expansion for the Bronze Age Systems Atlas
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

Waterlogging preserves organic and architectural evidence rarely visible at dryland sites, so richness cannot be read directly as exceptional social complexity.

Evidence and sources

  • supports · supports assignment
    The Flag Fen Bronze Age timber alignment: an interim report — Francis Pryor, Charles French, Maisie Taylor, John Barrett, Simon Halliday (1986)

    Reports the timber alignment and depositional complex at Flag Fen.


    Locator: Site description; dating; finds and interpretation sections
  • supports · supports assignment
    The Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement — Mark Knight, Rachel Ballantyne, Iona Robinson Zeki, David Gibson (2019)

    Publishes the exceptional Must Farm pile settlement, its earlier channel structures and the Flag Fen Basin palaeolandscape.


    Locator: Abstract; palaeolandscape; earlier channel activity; discussion; conclusions; Figure 2

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