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Lab number
SI-5521
Field number
1981-61
Material dated
oak and beech charcoal; charbon de chêne et de hêtre
Taxa dated
Quercus sp. (5.5 g) and Fagus sp. (0.5, id. by D. Laeyendecker)
Locality
Countess of Warwick Sound, southern Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
25 I/14
Submitter
W.W. Fitzhugh
Date submitted
July 17, 0098
Normalized Age
0
Significance
Historic, Frobisher, anomalous, young; Historique, anormal, jeune
Stratigraphic component
Structure 1
Context
smithy, structure 1, test pit 1
Additional information
Date quoted as -20 ± 65.
Comments
KeDe-1, Kodlunarn Island: Samples were collected from various contexts in the site occupied by Martin Frobisher, AD 1576-1578. Laeyendecker summarizes 17 radiocarbon dates from this site. Harbottle and others describe the preparation of iron samples from blooms discovered at or traced to the site.

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