C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - GU-3485

Human bone from Burial C of a cemetery. Skeleton intact and stratigraphically contemporary to Grave B and Grave C PROBLEM: As of 2009, the calibration is uncertain because the marine effect varies (Ascough PhD)

Canmore ID 4009

Map Number NB03NE

Site type Midden (Period Unassigned), Souterrain (Prehistoric), Wheelhouse(S) (Iron Age)

Site number 17

NGR 109800 936590

Council 410

County 26

Parish UIG

Lab Analysis ID GU-3485

Material Dated bone, human (homo sapiens)

Researcher Dunwell et al 1995, 742-3

Sponsor Historic Scotland

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 1150 bp +/-50

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error ad 800 +/-50

Delta -18.3

Completed by Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10