entity · site_bi_links_noltland
Links of Noltland
Extensive prehistoric settlement and farming landscape on Westray, Orkney.
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.
3300 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: broad archaeological range
- informs · defines or contextualizes
Links of Noltland prehistoric settlement — Historic Environment ScotlandSummarises the long-lived settlement sequence, environmental evidence and major Bronze Age component at Links of Noltland.
Locator: Project summary; Bronze Age settlement and chronology sections
Research description
Occupation spans long periods; Bronze Age houses, fields and deposits demonstrate island continuity and adaptation. Precise contemporaneity of all features cannot be assumed from the broad site span.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Continuity and adaptation
Evidence supports continued occupation, practice or production through a period of change.
Why does this record have this property?
The sequence preserves persistence and reorganization across chronological thresholds rather than a simple local disappearance around 1200 BCE.
- Links of Noltland prehistoric settlement
supports assignment · Project summary; Bronze Age settlement and chronology sections
Evidence and sources
- supports · defines or contextualizes
Links of Noltland prehistoric settlement — Historic Environment ScotlandSummarises the long-lived settlement sequence, environmental evidence and major Bronze Age component at Links of Noltland.
Locator: Project summary; Bronze Age settlement and chronology sections
Referenced records
- Scottish Highlands and islands archaeological search region · entity
- Geography assertion for site_bi_links_noltland · geography assertion