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C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - GU-3050

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Scottish Radiocarbon Database

GU-3050

Birch bark (E/J13 SF1424) from a pit fill of phase 3 with pottery of 1050 to 1200 AD. The material may have derived from phase 1 or 2.

Canmore ID 250

Map Number HU16SE

Site type House (Norse)

Site number 17

NGR 417600 1160500

Council 360

County 29

Parish WALLS AND SANDNESS

Lab Analysis ID GU-3050

Material Dated wood (betula)

Researcher Crawford; 1985; Crawford & Ballin Smith 1999, 76

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 1080 bp +/-70

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error ad 870 +/-70

Delta -27.2

Completed by Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10

From information compiled by Patrick Ashmore