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C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - GU-1146

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Scottish Radiocarbon Database

GU-1146

Human bone from an inhumation in a shallow slab- lined grave (BH78N/KAG MAR11, cemetery burial 11) with stone slab cover stones cut into natural sand and gravel.

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-1146

Material Dated bone, human (homo sapiens)

Researcher Ashmore and Hill 1984

Sponsor Historic Scotland

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 2145 bp +/-60

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 195 bc +/-60

Delta -20.4

Completed by Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10

From information compiled by Patrick Ashmore