Sample: OxA-8224

Laboratory: Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit

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BP: 4965 Std: 40

Delta 13C value -26.4 Delta 13C standard deviation None given

Sample Material: charcoal Sample Material Comment: Quercus sp.

Feature Type: burial mound Feature: 2451; timber used to build a mortuary structure in the phase 3B mound of a non-megalithic long barrow

Culture: Neolithic Phase: n/a

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Site: Fordhouse Barrow, Dun Country Subdivision: Angus Country: United Kingdom

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Approved: true Right: public

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Literature:

Ramsey, C. Bronk and Higham, T. F. G. and Owen, D. C. and Pike, A. W. G. and Hedges, R. E. M., Radiocarbon Dates from the Oxford Ams System: Archaeometry Datelist 31. Archaeometry 44, 2002, 1--150.

Sheridan, Alison, From Picardie to Pickering and Pencraig Hill? New information on theCarinated Bowl Neolithic'in northern Britain.

Whittle, Alasdair William Richardson and Healy, Frances Margaret Alton and Bayliss, Alexandra, Gathering time: dating the early Neolithic enclosures of southern Britain and Ireland (2011).

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Comment: in whittle et al 2011, 820: sample material: wood; large fragments from an oak timber

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