entity · phase_bi_llyn_fawr_transition
Llyn Fawr Bronze–Iron transition phase
British metalwork phase around and after 800 BCE used to mark the transition into the Early Iron Age.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
800 BCE–600 BCE
Precision: broad archaeological range
- informs · defines or contextualizes
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
Research description
The boundary is a scholarly periodization and differs by region and evidence class. It should not be treated as one synchronous societal replacement.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Archaeological label, not a people
The name is a modern archaeological classification rather than an ancient self-designation.
Why does this record have this property?
Llyn Fawr Bronze–Iron transition phase is used as an archaeological classification and is not treated as an ancient people.
- History of Bronze Age research in Scotland, including summary chronologies
supports assignment · Sections 1.2 and 1.2.5, Tables 1 and 2
Contextual record outside primary interval
The record lies partly or chiefly outside 1600–800 BCE but clarifies an antecedent or consequence.
Why does this record have this property?
The record extends materially outside 1600–800 BCE and is included only to clarify an antecedent or consequence.
- History of Bronze Age research in Scotland, including summary chronologies
supports assignment · Sections 1.2 and 1.2.5, Tables 1 and 2
Evidence and sources
- supports · defines or contextualizes
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