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C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - GU-3401
GU-3401
Charcoal from a layer of clay, forming one of the lowest of a series of sediments filling a passage through the blockhouse. Appears to be driftwood, burnt and then deposited on the passage floor when the blockhouse was intact but not in everyday use. See also GU-3402 (1200+/-60 BP) and GU-3403 (1310+/-90 BP).
Canmore ID 518
Map Number HU30NE
Site type Fort (Period Unassigned)
Site number 5
NGR 438890 1108790
Council 360
County 29
Parish DUNROSSNESS
Lab Analysis ID GU-3401
Material Dated charcoal (Null)
Researcher Carter et al 1995, 429, 439, 444
Sponsor Historic Scotland
Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 1290 bp +/-70
Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error ad 660 +/-70
Delta -26.7
Completed by Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Calibration program used OxCal 3.10
From information compiled by Patrick Ashmore
