Bronze Age World

Review and provenance

Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.

Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.

Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.

Geography and uncertainty

geometry type

Polygon

coordinate status

research_reconstruction

coordinate confidence

low

reconstruction method

Convex envelope of included south-west Irish, east Irish, Isle of Man, north Welsh and Ulster nodes used in this release; no modern national boundary was used.

explanation

Convex envelope of included south-west Irish, east Irish, Isle of Man, north Welsh and Ulster nodes used in this release; no modern national boundary was used. This broad envelope visualizes a research network, not sea control, one route, equal interaction intensity or continuous occupation across the polygon.

Evidence and sources

supports · locates or defines geometry
New data on Irish Later Bronze Age metallurgy: exploring technological continuity and change — Carlo Bottaini, Dirk Brandherm (2026)
Comparative maritime and metallurgical synthesis; node locations are separately sourced.

Locator: Abstract; pp. 1–36; dataset discussion
supports · locates or defines geometry
Balladoole historic monument site — Manx National Heritage
Comparative maritime and metallurgical synthesis; node locations are separately sourced.

Locator: Site description and location
supports · locates or defines geometry
Claimed by the Sea: Salcombe, Langdon Bay, and Other Marine Finds of the Bronze Age — Stuart Needham, David Parham, Catherine Frieman (2013)
Comparative maritime and metallurgical synthesis; node locations are separately sourced.

Locator: Chapters on Salcombe, Langdon Bay and interpretive synthesis

Where to go next

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Referenced records

Irish Sea interaction zone · entity