C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-10821

Sample CH06#10 Context 2476 Floor layer 2476 in House 2477 (floor of cigar-shaped house below House 801 at south end of excavation). Deposit of laminated black and orange lenses of peat ash forming a floor layer above windblown sand layer 3398 and the fill (2836) of a pit, and sealed by windblown sand layer 431. Site Phase 7. The carbonised barley grain is most likely to have been deposited as the result of activities within the house in which material became charred from contact with the hearth fire. Very little time is likely to have elapsed between the seed's charring and its 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-10821

Lab Preparation Code GU-14237

Material Dated Carbonised grain (Hordeum vulgare)

Researcher Mike Parker Pearson

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 3070 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 1120 bc +/-35

Delta -23.1

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