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C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-5290

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Scottish Radiocarbon Database

SUERC-5290

A piece of hazel charcoal (Sample EWE9 Context 216 Black charcoal rich silt fill of stake-hole (216). 216 cut through layer 093 and was sealed by 087. Burnt in-situ stake.

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-5290

Material Dated Charcoal (Corylus avellana)

Researcher Macgregor, G

Sponsor Historic Scotland

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 5055 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 3105 bc +/-35

Delta -25.2

Completed by Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10

From information compiled by Patrick Ashmore