Laboratory:
unknown, https://radiocarbon.org/laboratories (18 Apr. 2023)
BP: 4430
Std: 50
Delta 13C value
-21.8
Delta 13C standard deviation
None given
Sample Material:
collagen, bone
Sample Material Comment:
human, scapula of child <10 years
Feature Type:
rockshelter/cave
Feature:
the barntick, bats' and elderbush caves formed part of a single complex; deposits seem to have been mixed
Culture:
Neolithic
Phase:
n/a
Site:
Bats' Cave, Newhall
Country Subdivision:
Clare
Country:
Ireland
Approved:
true
Right:
public
Literature:
Dowd, Marion A, The use of caves for funerary and ritual practices in Neolithic Ireland. antiquity 82 / 316, 2008, 305--317.
Scharff, Robert Francis and Ussher, RJ and Cole, Grenville AJ and Newton, ET and Dixon, A Francis and Westropp, TJ, The Exploration of the Caves of County Clare. Being the Second Report from the Committee Appointed to Explore Irish Cave. The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1906, 1--76.
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).
Woodman, Peter and McCarthy, Margaret and Monaghan, Nigel, The Irish quaternary fauna project. Quaternary Science Reviews 16 / 2, 1997, 129--159.
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