C14 Radiocarbon Dating - Sample - UB-2083

Small pieces of oak charcoal, up to 4 cm in length, from a cavity in the fort rampart rubble with signs of local burning.

Canmore ID 16146

Map Number NJ16NW

Site type Floor(S) (9th Century), Fort (Iron Age), Midden (9th Century), Post Hole(S), Structure (Post Medieval), Bead (Roman), Coin (Roman)

Site number 1

NGR 310900 869140

Council 300

County 20

Parish DUFFUS

Lab Analysis ID UB-2083

Material Dated charcoal (quercus spp)

Researcher Small 1969; Edwards and Ralston 1978, 206

Uncalibrated date bp +/- error 1085 bp +/-40

Uncalibrated date ad/bc +/- error ad 865 +/-40

Delta -24.8

Completed by Belfast, Northern Ireland

Calibration program used OxCal 3.10