C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - OxA-17779

A sheep bone from Trench I, compartment 5 Layer 3, the second lowest of four levels of filling of the end-cell 5 of a stalled cairn (Sheridan and Higham 2007, 225).

Canmore ID 3243

Map Number HY55SW

Site type Chambered Cairn (Neolithic), Inhumation(S) (Neolithic), Bead (Bone)(Neolithic), Unidentified Pottery (Pottery)(Neolithic)

Site number 2

NGR 350444 1052277

Council 330

County 22

Parish PAPA WESTRAY

Lab Analysis ID OxA-17779

Material Dated bone, animal (ovicaprid)

Sponsor HS

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 4167 bp +/-31

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 2217 bc +/-31

Delta -19.78

Calibration program used No

Calibration curve used No