C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-10860

Sample CH06#66 Context 233 Floor layer 233 in House 150 in Area C (second floor of east room in double roundhouse in northwest). Deposit of laminated orange lenses of peat ash forming a floor layer above floor layer 233, and sealed by floor layer 202. Site Phase 16. 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-10860

Lab Preparation Code GU-14270

Material Dated Carbonised grain (Hordeum vulgare)

Researcher Mike Parker Pearson

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 2470 bp +/-30

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 520 bc +/-30

Delta -23.7

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