entity · site_bi_adabrock
Adabrock hoard
Later Bronze Age hoard from Lewis with insular and continental-associated objects.
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.
1000 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: broad archaeological range
- informs · defines or contextualizes
Adabrock Late Bronze Age hoard synthesis — Scottish Archaeological Research Framework (2012)Notes the Adabrock hoard's tools, ornaments, amber, glass and fragment of a continental sheet-metal vessel.
Locator: Section 1.2.2, Adabrock hoard caption and discussion
Research description
Tools, ornaments and a fragment of a continental sheet-metal vessel illustrate northern exchange and selective deposition. Object origin and depositional meaning remain separable questions.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Depositional meaning contested
The physical deposit is secure but its intended meaning or duration is disputed.
Why does this record have this property?
The deposit is archaeologically significant, but cargo loss, storage, offering, closure, repeated accumulation or other mechanisms require context-specific testing.
- Adabrock Late Bronze Age hoard synthesis
supports assignment · Section 1.2.2, Adabrock hoard caption and discussion
Contact evidence does not by itself prove migration
Objects, styles or materials indicate contact or circulation without uniquely identifying population movement.
Why does this record have this property?
The evidence supports contact, circulation or individual mobility but does not alone establish mass migration or ethnic replacement.
- Adabrock Late Bronze Age hoard synthesis
supports assignment · Section 1.2.2, Adabrock hoard caption and discussion
Evidence and sources
- supports · defines or contextualizes
Adabrock Late Bronze Age hoard synthesis — Scottish Archaeological Research Framework (2012)Notes the Adabrock hoard's tools, ornaments, amber, glass and fragment of a continental sheet-metal vessel.
Locator: Section 1.2.2, Adabrock hoard caption and discussion
Referenced records
- Scottish Highlands and islands archaeological search region · entity
- Geography assertion for site_bi_adabrock · geography assertion