entity · site_bi_rams_hill
Rams Hill
Multi-phase enclosed site on the Berkshire Downs.
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–950 BCE
Precision: broad archaeological range
- informs · defines or contextualizes
Redating Rams Hill and reconsidering Bronze Age enclosure — Stuart Needham, Janet Ambers (1994)Redates three phases of the Rams Hill enclosure to a span crossing the Penard and Wilburton phases.
Locator: Abstract; radiocarbon discussion and phase synthesis
Research description
Radiocarbon reassessment places the principal phases broadly in the thirteenth to tenth centuries BCE. Its function remains uncertain, and it should not be treated as a type-site for one coherent class of Middle Bronze Age elite enclosure.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Radiocarbon plateau or broad calibration affected
Absolute dating is widened or blurred by calibration structure and sample limitations.
Why does this record have this property?
Absolute chronology remains broader than a single typological boundary because calibrated ranges, sample histories or association quality limit precision.
- Redating Rams Hill and reconsidering Bronze Age enclosure
supports assignment · Abstract; radiocarbon discussion and phase synthesis
Evidence and sources
- supports · defines or contextualizes
Redating Rams Hill and reconsidering Bronze Age enclosure — Stuart Needham, Janet Ambers (1994)Redates three phases of the Rams Hill enclosure to a span crossing the Penard and Wilburton phases.
Locator: Abstract; radiocarbon discussion and phase synthesis
Referenced records
- Southern and eastern England archaeological search region · entity
- Geography assertion for site_bi_rams_hill · geography assertion