C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - GU-1139

Human bone from an inhumation in a shallow slab-lined grave (BH780/KAE MAQ9, cemetery burial 9) with stone slab cover, cut into natural sand and subsoil.

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-1139

Material Dated bone, human (homo sapiens)

Researcher Ashmore and Hill 1984

Sponsor Historic Scotland

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 2155 bp +/-60

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 205 bc +/-60

Delta -20.3

Completed by Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10