C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-10809

Sample CH06#64 Context 931 Midden layer 931 in Area C (the midden and double roundhouse northwest of the main excavation). Deposit of shells and brown sand forming a midden layer near the top of the upper midden sequence. It lies on top of midden layer 923 and is sealed by midden layer 922. Site Phase 12. The foetal sheep scapula is most likely to have been deposited as the result of butchery activities elsewhere on the settlement. From there it was presumably tipped into this midden. Very little time is likely to have elapsed between the sheep's death and its incorporation into the archaeological context of the midden.

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-10809

Lab Preparation Code GU-14223

Material Dated Bone (Sheep scapula)

Researcher Mike Parker Pearson

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

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

Delta -21

Delta15N relative to air  7.5

C/N ratio (Molar)  3.3

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