C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-5285

A human tooth (Sample EWE4) from fill 099 of post-hole 098, one of a set of burnt in-situ oak timbers comprising part of a structure (045). The posthole was sealed beneath further collapsed material 079 of the structure at face value the age suggests that the tooth was less than 400 years old, the stratigraphy makes it seem more likely that the measurement does not represent the toothÆs true age.

Canmore ID 257432

Map Number NT67NE

Site type Cairn (Prehistoric), Cairn (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age), Cist (Prehistoric), Cist (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age), Mortuary Enclosure(S) (Neolithic)

Site number 474

NGR 366370 677370

Council 210

County 12

Parish DUNBAR

Lab Analysis ID SUERC-5285

Material Dated Bone, human (homo sapiens)

Researcher Macgregor, G

Sponsor Historic Scotland

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 210 bp +/-40

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error ad 1740 +/-40

Delta -20.6

Delta15N relative to air  10.2

C/N ratio (Molar)  3.1

Completed by Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10