C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - GU-1498

Animal bones from a small rubbish deposit (BH 77/78 JAB(DMD)) underlying the penultimate wall of roundhouse 4. The deposit has been tentatively identified as representing rubbish cleared from the floor of the preceding phase of the structure, the abandonment of which it should date.

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-1498

Material Dated bone, animal (Null)

Researcher Hill 1982a, 1982b

Sponsor Historic Scotland

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 2035 bp +/-100

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 85 bc +/-100

Delta -20.8

Completed by Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10