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C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - OxA-13212
OxA-13212
Human bone from a crouched inhumation of a male ‘of large proportions’, in a cist. Also present in the same storage box (NMS X.EPB 273) in NMS are bones of a juvenile and a ?cattle tooth.. The date was obtained from the human bone which had allegedly been found with the Beaker N/MR, step 3 in 1900; but evidently much younger bone has accidentally become associated with this vessel since its discovery
Canmore ID 58815
Map Number NT77NW
Site type Cist (Bronze Age), Urn (Bronze Age)
Site number 3
NGR 371700 676200
Council 210
County 12
Parish DUNBAR
Lab Analysis ID OxA-13212
Material Dated bone, human (homo sapiens)
Researcher Sheridan pers comm 2005
Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 688 bp +/-25
Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error ad 1262 +/-25
Completed by Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, England
Calibration program used OxCal 3.10
From information compiled by Patrick Ashmore
