C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - AA-21248

Leather from inside the wattle lined pit 1, beneath a cover of packing stones in a clay matrix. The sample was lying on top of a sandy/silty deposit which contained no organic remains. Once constructed the wattle lined pit (c-14 date GU-4094 ) could have been lined with skin and used to hold water, rubbish food etc. or it may have been used in part of the process used to prepare animal skins. Hale 2000, 554 has this wrongly as GU-21249 (Checked with SURRC 20 Nov 2002).

Canmore ID 12658

Map Number NH54NE

Site type Crannog (Prehistoric), Cauldron (Period Unassigned)

Site number 2

NGR 258573 848953

Council 270

County 26

Parish KILLEARNAN

Lab Analysis ID AA-21248

Material Dated leather (n.i.)

Sponsor HS

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 2220 bp +/-70

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 270 bc +/-70

Delta -27.9

Calibration program used No

Calibration curve used No