C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-10718

Sample CH06# 05 Context 2793 Cremation pyre deposit in forecourt of House 1370 (northern roundhouse). This latest pyre deposit consisted of a thin spread, 1.4 m x 1 m across, of burnt bone, peat ash, soot and charcoal. It lay above an earlier cremation spread (3334) and was covered by fill layers 2746 and 3356. Site Phase 8. The disarticulated human bones are likely to have been left after the bodies' cremation on this pyre. Very little time is likely to have elapsed between burning and incorporation of the cremated bone into the archaeological context of the deposit since the bones were left within the pyre residues.

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-10718

Lab Preparation Code GU-14165

Material Dated Cremated Bone (Human long bone fragment)

Researcher Mike Parker Pearson

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 3380 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 1430 bc +/-35

Delta -22.3

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