entity · site_france_1_fort_harrouard
Fort-Harrouard
Also known as: Fort Harrouard, Sorel-Moussel
A long-lived fortified or elevated settlement with Late Bronze Age metallurgical evidence.
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
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1600 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Creusets pour la fonte des alliages à base de cuivre du Bronze Final au Fort-Harrouard à Sorel-Moussel (Eure-et-Loir) — Inocencia Queixalos, Michel Menu, Jean-Pierre Mohen (1987)Documents crucibles and alloy casting.
Locator: pp. 23-32 - informs · contextualizes
The Bronze Age in France — Claude Mordant (2013)Provides regional context.
Locator: Northern France site synthesis
Research description
Fort-Harrouard is represented as a site point. Its crucibles demonstrate local copper-alloy casting, while the wider scale of production and political role remain uncertain.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Direct craft-production evidence
Tools, waste or installations directly attest production at a site.
Why does this record have this property?
The evidence supports local craft but not its institutional scale.
- Creusets pour la fonte des alliages à base de cuivre du Bronze Final au Fort-Harrouard à Sorel-Moussel (Eure-et-Loir)
provides archaeological observation · pp. 23-32
Evidence and sources
- supports · provides archaeological observation
Creusets pour la fonte des alliages à base de cuivre du Bronze Final au Fort-Harrouard à Sorel-Moussel (Eure-et-Loir) — Inocencia Queixalos, Michel Menu, Jean-Pierre Mohen (1987)Documents crucibles and alloy casting.
Locator: pp. 23-32 - supports · contextualizes
The Bronze Age in France — Claude Mordant (2013)Provides regional context.
Locator: Northern France site synthesis
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_france_1_fort_harrouard · geography assertion