property · prop_bi_wetland_preservation_bias
Exceptional wetland preservation
Waterlogging preserves organic materials and architecture that are usually missing elsewhere.
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.
Research description
The assignment warns that wetland sites can look unusually rich because their evidence survives differently. They should not be treated as a representative sample of all contemporary settlements.
Evidence and sources
- supports · defines
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 - supports · defines
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