C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - BM-2515

Human bone from an adult inhumation with a beaker, a pebble ‘burnisher’, a plano-convex flint knife and 2 other knife fragments; an axehead fragment; 2 flint scrapers, and several pieces of struck flint.

Canmore ID 34670

Map Number NO54NW

Site type Cist (Early Bronze Age), Axe (Stone)(Neolithic), Beaker (Early Bronze Age), Implement (Flint)(Early Bronze Age), Knife(S) (Flint)(Early Bronze Age), Polisher (Stone)(Early Bronze Age), Scraper (Tool)(S) (Flint)(Early Bronze Age)

Site number 18

NGR 352400 747300

Council 120

County 02

Parish KIRKDEN

Lab Analysis ID BM-2515

Material Dated bone, human (homo sapiens)

Researcher Coutts 1971; Kinnes et al 1991

Sponsor BM

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 3780 bp +/-60

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 1830 bc +/-60

Completed by British Museum, England

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10