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C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - GU-1655

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Scottish Radiocarbon Database

GU-1655

Small diameter oak roundwood charcoal 45/187 from B181 - a post pipe of a double post-hole at the entrance of a massive roundhouse.

Canmore ID 47244

Map Number NS89SW

Site type Fort (Iron Age), Palisaded Settlement (Iron Age), Ring Groove House(S) (Iron Age)

Site number 12

NGR 281597 690374

Council 390

County 30

Parish ST NINIANS

Lab Analysis ID GU-1655

Material Dated charcoal (quercus spp)

Researcher Rideout 1996, 249-250

Sponsor Historic Scotland

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 2445 bp +/-60

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 495 bc +/-60

Delta -25

Completed by Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10

From information compiled by Patrick Ashmore