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C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - OxA-8788

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Scottish Radiocarbon Database

OxA-8788

Human right femur from a burial in a stone lined long cist Grave 54

Canmore ID 53479

Map Number NT36NW

Site type Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric), Long Cist Cemetery (Early Medieval), Pit Alignment (Prehistoric), Ring Groove House (Prehistoric), Tree Trunk Coffin (Early Medieval)

Site number 5

NGR 334760 668850

Council 290

County 19

Parish NEWTON

Lab Analysis ID OxA-8788

Material Dated bone, human (homo sapiens)

Researcher Rees 2002, 350-352

Sponsor Historic Scotland

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 1545 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error ad 405 +/-35

Delta -20.5

Completed by Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, England

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10

From information compiled by Patrick Ashmore