C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - AA-53721

A dog vertebra (MCX/1) from a dog burial MCX within a stone-floored pit. The pit had been cut into an earlier souterrain-related feature containing Roman glass.

Canmore ID 58802

Map Number NT77NW

Site type Cist(S) (Prehistoric), Inhumation(S) (Prehistoric), Palisaded Enclosure (Prehistoric), Pit (Prehistoric), Ring Groove House(S) (Prehistoric), Beaker (Pottery)(Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Pottery)(Prehistoric), Knife (Bronze Age), Scraper (Tool) (Prehistoric)

Site number 18

NGR 372380 675470

Council 210

County 12

Parish DUNBAR

Lab Analysis ID AA-53721

Material Dated Bone, animal (canus)

Researcher Dunwell, A J

Sponsor Historic Scotland

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 1830 bp +/-45

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error ad 120 +/-45

Delta -21.3

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

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10