C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - AA-50345

A rib bone SK11 from an articulated human skeleton lying in a truncated inhumation grave 1187 with another articulated human skeleton SK12 adjacent to the cliff edge. The grave was cut a thin layer of rubble (which directly overlay natural), and was sealed by a layer of rubble that ran under the wall of the nave.

Canmore ID 3291

Map Number HY62NE

Site type Chapel (11th Century), Cross Slab (Early Medieval)

Site number 14

NGR 366950 1029180

Council 330

County 22

Parish STRONSAY

Lab Analysis ID AA-50345

Material Dated Bone, human (homo sapiens)

Sponsor HS

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 825 bp +/-65

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error ad 1125 +/-65

Delta -20.5

Calibration program used No

Calibration curve used No