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C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-5294

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Scottish Radiocarbon Database

SUERC-5294

A piece of hazel charcoal (Sample EWE10) from the black brown silt fill 103 of pit 101 cut into natural sub-soil and sealed by colluvium (003). The pit contained prehistoric artefacts, charcoal and carbonised nut shell.

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-5294

Material Dated Charcoal (Corylus avellana)

Researcher Macgregor, G

Sponsor Historic Scotland

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 4275 bp +/-40

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 2325 bc +/-40

Delta -25

Completed by Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10

From information compiled by Patrick Ashmore