C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - OxA-8386 | Canmore

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Scottish Radiocarbon Database

OxA-8386

Left femur of an extended adult inhumation in a grave under a wall associated with Chapel I

Canmore ID 46245

Map Number NS79SE

Site type Castle (Medieval), Midden (Period Unassigned), War Memorial(S) (20th Century)

Site number 6

NGR 279000 694000

Council 390

County 30

Parish STIRLING

Lab Analysis ID OxA-8386

Material Dated bone, human (homo sapiens)

Researcher Ewart 1999, 114

Sponsor Historic Scotland

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 505 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error ad 1445 +/-35

Delta -19.3

Completed by Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, England

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10

From information compiled by Patrick Ashmore