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Lab number
Beta-42660
Field number
1981-49
Material dated
oak charcoal; charbon de chêne
Taxa dated
Quercus sp. (2.8 g, 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
510 ± 80
Significance
Historic, Frobisher; Historique
Stratigraphic component
Structure 1
Context
smithy, structure 1, test pit 1
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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