C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - GU-1070

Animal bone from a humic layer (Site BH77 SC3) forming the upper fill of the ditch terminal of the outer ditch in the hillfort multivallate phase, Period VI/VII.

Canmore ID 58800

Map Number NT77NW

Site type Burial(S) (Iron Age), Cist(S) (Iron Age), Fort (Early Iron Age), Settlement (Early Iron Age)

Site number 16

NGR 370111 677388

Council 210

County 12

Parish DUNBAR

Lab Analysis ID GU-1070

Material Dated bone, animal (Null)

Researcher Ashmore and Hill 1984

Sponsor Historic Scotland

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 2180 bp +/-60

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 230 bc +/-60

Delta -21

Completed by Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10