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Deverel–Rimbury culture

1400 BC – 1200 BC
CultureEurope

A Middle Bronze Age archaeological culture/pottery tradition of southern England, named after two barrow sites in Dorset. Associated with so-called 'Celtic field' field systems, palisaded cattle enclosures, small roundhouses, and cremation burial in urnfield cemeteries or inserted into pre-existing round barrows.

Archaeologists now regard 'Deverel–Rimbury' as covering numerous disparate local groups sharing pottery traits rather than one homogeneous culture; the tradition gives way to Late Bronze Age Britain toward the end of the 2nd millennium BC.

Borders in 1400 BC · drawn from 1 sourced border frame
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