C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - GU-1506

Animal bones above a pebbled surface (BH 77/78 BCB/BGG) and below paving (BCB) in the north-east part of the SW entrance. The pebbling marks the initiation of Period VII, and the paving is one of several (unconnected) secondary structures belonging to a later phase of the same period. Wrongly coded GU-1505 in Ashmore and Hill 1984, 95.

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-1506

Material Dated bone, animal (Null)

Researcher Hill 1982a, 1982b; Ashmore and Hill 1984, 95

Sponsor Historic Scotland

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 2005 bp +/-60

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 55 bc +/-60

Delta -20

Completed by Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10