C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-10800

Sample CH06#44 Context 1555 Fill of a small, shallow pit (above northern roundhouse). The pit (1554) was dug into fill layer 1220 and sealed beneath fill layer 731. Deposit of brown sand containing the partial skeleton of a lamb. Site Phase 12. The articulated lamb skeleton is likely to have been placed as a formal deposit. Very little time is likely to have elapsed between the death of the lamb and the incorporation of its articulated 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-10800

Lab Preparation Code GU-14217

Material Dated Bone (Sheep vertebra)

Researcher Mike Parker Pearson

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

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

Delta -19.7

Delta15N relative to air  6.8

C/N ratio (Molar)  3.6

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