C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-10717

Sample CH06#04 Context 3307 Cremation burial in southern end of site ( beneath House 801). The burial deposit consisted of a small domed heap, 1.1 m diameter, of burnt bone, peat ash, soot and charcoal set upon a stone platform (3463) and surrounded by a circle of stones (3306). It lay on a trampled surface (3198) 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-10717

Lab Preparation Code GU-14164

Material Dated Cremated Bone (Ulna shaft fragment)

Researcher Mike Parker Pearson

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 3375 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 1425 bc +/-35

Delta -23.3

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