C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - GU-7532

A femur from an articulated burial in a grave which cut an earlier burial and was itself cut by a later burial in a coffin.

Canmore ID 1291

Map Number HU54SW

Site type Burial Ground (Early Medieval), Chapel (Medieval), Composite Slab Shrine (Early Medieval), Cross Slab (Early Medieval), Grave Slab(S) (17th Century), Rune Inscribed Stone (Norse)

Site number 9

NGR 453070 1140940

Council 360

County 29

Parish BRESSAY

Lab Analysis ID GU-7532

Material Dated bone, human (homo sapiens)

Researcher Turner 1998, 128

Sponsor Historic Scotland

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 90 bp +/-50

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error ad 1860 +/-50

Delta -19.2

Completed by Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10