entity · site_bi_must_farm
Must Farm
Exceptionally preserved later Bronze Age pile-dwelling settlement 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.
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Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1500 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: broad archaeological range
- 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
A short-lived ninth-century BCE settlement destroyed by fire preserves architecture, household assemblages, food, textiles and waterlogged organics. Earlier channel-side structures belong to distinct antecedent activity and are not the same settlement phase.
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 Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement
supports assignment · Abstract; palaeolandscape; earlier channel activity; discussion; conclusions; Figure 2
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.
- 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 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_must_farm · geography assertion