C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-10788

Sample CH06#23 Context 1308 Floor 1308 in House 401 (the second floor in the middle roundhouse). Deposit of thin, laminated black and orange lenses of peat ash forming a floor layer above fill layer 1310 and sealed by fill layer 800. Site Phase 10. The unfused right cattle femur is most likely to have been deposited on the floor as a result of activities within the house in which butchered bones were brought indoors. Very little time is likely to have elapsed between the animal's death and the femur's incorporation into the archaeological context of the floor 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-10788

Lab Preparation Code GU-14208

Material Dated Bone (Cattle unfused right femur)

Researcher Mike Parker Pearson

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 2835 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 885 bc +/-35

Delta -20.7

Delta15N relative to air  5.1

C/N ratio (Molar)  3.3

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