C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-10083

Sample S2005-13 Context Pit 50 Secondary Fill 50/3 Western axial pit of hall. Dark grey brown sandy silt with charcoal rich lenses. This was the lowest of a series of silty deposits filling a hollow or possible recut in the largely infilled axial pit. Sealed by further substantial silt layers. The silt and charcoal lenses are likely to have been washed in from the surrounding end of the building and may derive from burnt material derived from the destruction of the building - in which case the date should accord with the dates of grain etc. from the burnt structure. However the paucity of finds and the possible removal of structural timbers at the end of the structure prior to the destruction of the building suggest that this area may have been unroofed and virtually out of use before the rest of the building was destroyed. An earlier date might suggest that this pit was open and silting before the main part of the structure was destroyed. The hazelnut in it's original context would have been deposited within the year of harvest, but as the fill appears to have been silted in, rather than deliberately filled, it could be older.

Canmore ID 36670

Map Number NO79NW

Site type Timber Hall (Neolithic)

Site number 17

NGR 373930 796700

Council 110

County 15

Parish BANCHORY-TERNAN

Lab Analysis ID SUERC-10083

Lab Preparation Code GU-13939

Material Dated Nutshell (Corylus)

Researcher Hilary Murray

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 4995 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 3045 bc +/-35

Delta -24.6

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