C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-10807

Sample CH06#54 Context 1150 Floor layer 1150 in House 801 (only floor of southern roundhouse). Deposit of laminated black and orange lenses of peat ash forming a floor layer above fill layer 431 and sealed by windblown sand layer 429. Site Phase 9 The sheep/goat left tibia is most likely to have been deposited as the result of activities within the house in which butchered joints were brought in from outside. Very little time is likely to have elapsed between the sheep/goat'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-10807

Lab Preparation Code GU-14221

Material Dated Bone (Sheep/goat left tibia)

Researcher Mike Parker Pearson

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 2925 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 975 bc +/-35

Delta -20.2

Delta15N relative to air  6.4

C/N ratio (Molar)  3.2

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