C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-10716

Sample CH06#03 Context 3255 Cremation burial in southern end of site ( beneath House 801). The burial deposit consisted of a thin spread, 0.7 x 0.5 m across, of burnt bone, peat ash, soot and charcoal within a larger charcoal spread (3496). It lay above a sterile layer of windblown sand (3398), and was sealed by the house floor 2835. Site Phase 3. The disarticulated human bones are likely to have been deposited as a formal burial. Very little time is likely to have elapsed between the burning of the individual and the incorporation of their cremated bone into the archaeological context of the deposit since the pyre residues accompany the bones.

Canmore ID 108429

Map Number NF72SW

Site type Cremation Cemetery (Prehistoric), House (Period Unassigned), Roundhouse(S) (Prehistoric), Settlement (Period Unassigned)

Site number 17

NGR 73138 821977

Council 410

County 14

Parish SOUTH UIST

Lab Analysis ID SUERC-10716

Lab Preparation Code GU-14163

Material Dated Cremated Bone (Cranial fragment)

Researcher Mike Parker Pearson

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 3270 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 1320 bc +/-35

Delta -21.3

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