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C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - SUERC-5304

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Scottish Radiocarbon Database

SUERC-5304

A piece of hazel charcoal (Sample EWE17) from the cremated bone fill 031 of urn 029 in pit 028. The pit cut into cairn material 083 and was sealed by 024.

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-5304

Material Dated Charcoal (Corylus avellana)

Researcher Macgregor, G

Sponsor Historic Scotland

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 3455 bp +/-35

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error 1505 bc +/-35

Delta -24.5

Completed by Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10

From information compiled by Patrick Ashmore