entity · landscape_bi_dartmoor_reaves
Dartmoor reave and roundhouse landscapes
Extensive reave systems, roundhouses and enclosures on Dartmoor.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
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Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1700 BCE–900 BCE
Precision: broad archaeological range
- informs · defines or contextualizes
What happened before the Middle Bronze Age land divisions and roundhouses? Prehistoric soil erosion and landscape change on Dartmoor, UK — Chris Carey, Kim Hunnisett, Richard Macphail, Lee Bray, Phil Toms, Jaime Wood, Andy Crabb (2024)Analyses sediments predating a roundhouse and reave at Holwell and finds local anthropogenic erosion both before and after formal land division.
Locator: Abstract; Holwell sequence; discussion and conclusion
Research description
Formal land divisions became prominent in the Middle Bronze Age, but recent geoarchaeology shows human impact before and after reave construction. Local sequences should not be compressed into one region-wide intensification or abandonment event.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Continuity and adaptation
Evidence supports continued occupation, practice or production through a period of change.
Why does this record have this property?
The sequence preserves persistence and reorganization across chronological thresholds rather than a simple local disappearance around 1200 BCE.
- What happened before the Middle Bronze Age land divisions and roundhouses? Prehistoric soil erosion and landscape change on Dartmoor, UK
supports assignment · Abstract; Holwell sequence; discussion and conclusion
Research reconstruction, not a border
A mapped polygon represents an analytical distribution or interaction zone, not a surveyed frontier.
Why does this record have this property?
The associated polygon is a generalized analytical distribution or interaction envelope and must not be displayed as a political boundary.
- What happened before the Middle Bronze Age land divisions and roundhouses? Prehistoric soil erosion and landscape change on Dartmoor, UK
supports assignment · Abstract; Holwell sequence; discussion and conclusion
Evidence and sources
- supports · defines or contextualizes
What happened before the Middle Bronze Age land divisions and roundhouses? Prehistoric soil erosion and landscape change on Dartmoor, UK — Chris Carey, Kim Hunnisett, Richard Macphail, Lee Bray, Phil Toms, Jaime Wood, Andy Crabb (2024)Analyses sediments predating a roundhouse and reave at Holwell and finds local anthropogenic erosion both before and after formal land division.
Locator: Abstract; Holwell sequence; discussion and conclusion
Referenced records
- South-west England archaeological search region · entity
- Geography assertion for landscape_bi_dartmoor_reaves · geography assertion