entity · site_bi_flag_fen
Flag Fen
Timber post alignment, platform and metal-deposition complex in the Flag Fen Basin.
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.
1300 BCE–900 BCE
Precision: broad archaeological range
- informs · defines or contextualizes
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 - informs · defines or contextualizes
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
Research description
Construction and repeated maintenance extended through the later second and early first millennia BCE. Wetland preservation makes the site unusually visible; it should not be treated as a typical settlement sample or as evidence for one uniform ritual meaning.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Exceptional wetland preservation
Waterlogging preserves organic materials and architecture that are usually missing elsewhere.
Why does this record have this property?
Waterlogging preserves organic and architectural evidence rarely visible at dryland sites, so richness cannot be read directly as exceptional social complexity.
- The Flag Fen Bronze Age timber alignment: an interim report
supports assignment · Site description; dating; finds and interpretation sections - The Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement
supports assignment · Abstract; palaeolandscape; earlier channel activity; discussion; conclusions; Figure 2
Evidence and sources
- supports · defines or contextualizes
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 - supports · defines or contextualizes
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
Referenced records
- Southern and eastern England archaeological search region · entity
- Geography assertion for site_bi_flag_fen · geography assertion