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Date: OxA-1877

Age BP
 
OxA-1877 (2770 ±70)
Site
 
4B Barrow ( / Great Britain and Ireland / Great Britain and Ireland )
Stored in
 
Latitude
 
51.8784
Longitude
 
-5.2920
Contact
 
Oxford Archaeol Unit
     
     
Period
 
Bronze Age
     
     
References
 
Archaeometry, 32, 1990, 218-21; Oxoniensia, 42, 1977, 30-41
     
Comments
 
CL Charred human bone, F4321, from cremation within tripartite collared urn decorated with twisted cord impressions, at W end of barrow cemetery, c 20m N of Barrow 12, at Barrow Hills, Radley, Oxfordshire, England. Subm C Halpin 1988. Comment (subm): these three dates, OxA-1876, 1877, -1878, have failed to produce archaeologically acceptable dates. Comment (lab): chemically the three anomalous charred bones were no different from the other charred bones which have produced acceptable dates. Environmental contamination is possible, though it would be unusual for the same process to make dates both too old and too young.
     





























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