C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-10792

Sample CH06#39 Context 1205 Fill layer 1205 within House 1370 (above second floor within northern roundhouse). Deposit of white windblown sand above floor layer 1369 and sealed by fill layer 1203. Site Phase 10. The sheep right carpal is most likely to have been deposited as the result of activities in which butchered joints were deposited in the sand. Very little time is likely to have elapsed between the sheep's death and the articulated bone's incorporation into the archaeological context of the fill 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-10792

Lab Preparation Code GU-14212

Material Dated Bone (Sheep right carpal)

Researcher Mike Parker Pearson

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 2900 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 950 bc +/-35

Delta -20.6

Delta15N relative to air  6.8

C/N ratio (Molar)  3.4

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