C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-10789

Sample CH06#24 Context 655 Floor 655 in House 401 (the third floor in the middle roundhouse). Deposit of laminated black and orange lenses of peat ash forming a floor layer above fill layer 800 and sealed by fill layer 659. Site Phase 11. The left deer metacarpal and articulating animal bones are 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 metacarpal'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-10789

Lab Preparation Code GU-14209

Material Dated Bone (Deer left metacarpal)

Researcher Mike Parker Pearson

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 2815 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 865 bc +/-35

Delta -20.7

Delta15N relative to air  6.2

C/N ratio (Molar)  3.2

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