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- Lab number
- GSC-3218
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- 0.5 m north of the south bank of Delorey Island, 3.1 m asl, at the mouth of Tracadie River, in St. George's Bay, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 11 F/12
- Submitter
- R.J. Nash
- Date submitted
- October 8, 0097
- Measured Age
- 810 ± 70
- Normalized Age
- 810 ± 70
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Woodland; Sylvicole
- Context
- bottom of level 3, bottom of occupation zone, 20-30 cm depth, at the bottom of the black soil zone and above sterile orange clay
- Additional information
- After pre-treatment, 3.5 g of dry sample remained for combustion, and the CO2 was mixed with dead gas for counting.
- Comments
- BjCj-9, Delorey Island: GSC-3218 and I-11619 are from nearly identical contexts but differ markedly in age. Nash notes that there has been some disturbance at the site, but it is not ubiquitous. He compares the radiocarbon dates with a younger thermoluminescence date on pottery and concludes that the site contains a late Woodland component with a considerable time span. Typological analysis supports the idea of occupation spanning more than a millennium.