C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - AA-22916

Charred barley within layer (619) with cobbles, bone and LBA/EIA pottery below sand to seaward side of broch in area machine-excavated to construct sea defences.

Canmore ID 9825

Map Number NF72NW

Site type Broch (Iron Age), Midden (Iron Age) - (Pictish), Settlement (Pictish)

Site number 1

NGR 71407 829815

Council 410

County 14

Parish SOUTH UIST

Lab Analysis ID AA-22916

Material Dated charred grain (hordeum spp)

Researcher Parker-Pearson and Sharples 1999

Sponsor Historic Scotland

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 2435 bp +/-50

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 485 bc +/-50

Completed by National Science Foundation Radiocarbon Facility University of Arizona, USA

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10