C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-10850

Sample CH06#53 Context 3255 Cremation burial in southern end of site (beneath House 801). The burial deposit consisted of a thin spread, 0.7 x 0.5 m across, of burnt bone, peat ash, soot and charcoal within a larger charcoal spread (3496). It lay above a sterile layer of windblown sand (3398), and was sealed by the house floor 2835. Site Phase 3. The carbonised barley grain is most likely to have been deposited as the result of burning on and around the pyre. Very little time is likely to have elapsed between the seed's charring and its incorporation into the archaeological context of the cremation burial. This will establish whether the cremated corpse was already ancient when burnt.

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-10850

Lab Preparation Code GU-14260

Material Dated Carbonised grain (Hordeum vulgare)

Researcher Mike Parker Pearson

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 3210 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 1260 bc +/-35

Delta -25.6

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