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C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-10797

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Scottish Radiocarbon Database

SUERC-10797

Sample CH06#41 Context 1644 Fill layer 1644 within House 1370 (within northern roundhouse). Deposit brown sand above floor layer 2003 and sealed by floor layer 1709. Site Phase 10. The cow's right femur is most likely to have been deposited as the result of activities in which butchered joints were deposited amongst the broken pots in this layer. Very little time is likely to have elapsed between the cow's death and the unfused bone'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-10797

Lab Preparation Code GU-14214

Material Dated Bone (Cow right femur)

Researcher Mike Parker Pearson

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 2800 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 850 bc +/-35

Delta -20.1

Delta15N relative to air  5

C/N ratio (Molar)  3.5

Lab Certificate 

From information compiled by SUERC