C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-10790

Sample CH06#25 Context 595 Floor 595 in House 401 (the fourth floor in the middle roundhouse). Deposit of laminated black and orange lenses of peat ash forming a floor layer above fill layer 659 and sealed by fill layer 663. Site Phase 12. The dog metatarsal is likely to have been deposited into this layer as it formed. Very little time is likely to have elapsed between the death of the dog and the incorporation of its disarticulated partial 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-10790

Lab Preparation Code GU-14210

Material Dated Bone (Dog metatarsal)

Researcher Mike Parker Pearson

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 2550 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 600 bc +/-35

Delta -20.4

Delta15N relative to air  9.3

C/N ratio (Molar)  3.2

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