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C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-10726

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Scottish Radiocarbon Database

SUERC-10726

Sample CH06# 27 Context 1291 Fill of a large pit dug through floor layer 595 in House 401 (the fourth floor in the middle roundhouse). Deposit of mottled brown sand (1291) filling pit 1292. The pit fill cut through floor layer 595 into fill layer 659 and was sealed by fill layer 663. It thus dates to the end of floor 595's use. Site Phase 12. The articulated dog skeleton is likely to have been placed as a formal deposit. Very little time is likely to have elapsed between the death of the dog and the incorporation of its articulated skeleton into the archaeological context of the deposit.

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-10726

Lab Preparation Code GU-14170

Material Dated Bone (Dog left ulna)

Researcher Mike Parker Pearson

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 2555 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 605 bc +/-35

Delta -19.9

Delta15N relative to air  8.8

C/N ratio (Molar)  3.2

Lab Certificate 

From information compiled by SUERC