Bronze Age World

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.

Preferred assertion

Precision: broad archaeological range

informs · defines or contextualizes
Rathgall multivallate hillfort and Late Bronze Age settlement — Database of Irish Excavation Reports
Records the large settlement, workshop evidence, moulds and metalworking assemblage at Rathgall.

Locator: Site summary, finds and coordinate fields
informs · defines or contextualizes
New data on Irish Later Bronze Age metallurgy: exploring technological continuity and change — Carlo Bottaini, Dirk Brandherm (2026)
Chemical analysis of 105 Irish Middle and Late Bronze Age artefacts finds broad continuity in Cu-Sn alloying with occasional elevated lead.

Locator: Abstract; pp. 1–36; dataset discussion

Used for Rathgall, later Bronze Age metalworking and regional settlement evidence without equating material classifications with named peoples.

supports · defines or contextualizes
Rathgall multivallate hillfort and Late Bronze Age settlement — Database of Irish Excavation Reports
Records the large settlement, workshop evidence, moulds and metalworking assemblage at Rathgall.

Locator: Site summary, finds and coordinate fields
supports · defines or contextualizes
New data on Irish Later Bronze Age metallurgy: exploring technological continuity and change — Carlo Bottaini, Dirk Brandherm (2026)
Chemical analysis of 105 Irish Middle and Late Bronze Age artefacts finds broad continuity in Cu-Sn alloying with occasional elevated lead.

Locator: Abstract; pp. 1–36; dataset discussion