C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - OxA-9833

WITHDRAWN BECAUSE OF SAMPLE TREATMENT PROBLEM A sheep bone from Trench I, compartment 5 Layer 3, the second lowest of four levels of filling of the end-cell 5 of a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. Because the d13C value suggests a 'marine' effect this age is older than it would have been had the sheep eaten material of purely terrestrial origin. See OxA-17779 4167+/-31 (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-9833

Material Dated withdrawn (withdrawn)

Sponsor HS

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 4585 bp +/-40

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 2635 bc +/-40

Delta -12.8

Calibration program used No

Calibration curve used No