{"id":49,"date":"2018-12-20T15:57:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/?p=49"},"modified":"2018-12-20T15:57:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:57:53","slug":"radiocarbon-dating-the-larger-neolithic-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Radiocarbon dating the larger Neolithic Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_256\" style=\"width: 417px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-256\" width=\"407\" height=\"306\" class=\" wp-image-256\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_8159-1024x768.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_8159-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_8159-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_8159-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_8159-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial shot of Neolithic hall (from west)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So far, we have received three radiocarbon dates from the larger Neolithic hall (Structure 8) at Carnoustie. &nbsp;Three of the post-holes at the north-eastern gable end of the hall have yielded calibrated (2 sigma) dates from single entity samples (willow, alder and hazel) of 3694-3530 BC, 3929-3703 BC and 3893-3653 BC. Which confirms our assumption that this was an Early Neolithic structure of the early fourth millennium BC.<\/p>\n<p>Those dates are really close to the radiocarbon dates recovered from other Neolithic halls in Scotland such as Balbridie in Aberdeenshire and Doon Hill in East Lothian. So it&#8217;ll be interesting to see whether the smaller building (Structure 13) at Carnoustie, which lies on different alignment south of the larger hall, yields a different range of radiocarbon dates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, we have received three radiocarbon dates from the larger Neolithic hall (Structure 8) at Carnoustie. &nbsp;Three of the post-holes at the north-eastern gable end of the hall have yielded calibrated (2 sigma) dates from single entity samples (willow, alder and hazel) of 3694-3530 BC, 3929-3703 BC and 3893-3653 BC. Which confirms our assumption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guard-archaeology.co.uk\/carnoustieHoard\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}