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Lab number
S-258
Material dated
charred wood; bois carbonisé
Locality
about 22.5 km south of Glen Ewen, Souris drainage, Saskatchewan
Map sheet
62 F/04
Submitter
T.F. Kehoe
Date submitted
July 11, 0096
Measured Age
1220 ± 70
Normalized Age
1220 ± 70
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
culture?
Context
burial mound, dates mound construction
Comments
DgMl-1, Glen Ewen Burial Mound: It is a conical mound 50 ft (15 m) in diameter, 1.5 ft (46 cm) high, with four linear mounds about 12 ft (3.5 m) wide radiating from it for as much as 600 ft (180 m) and terminating in conical mounds. T.F. Kehoe collected two radiocarbon samples. S-258 consists of charred wood from planking covering the burial chamber beneath the central tumulus, and it is considered to date the construction of the mound. S-259 consists of charred wood associated with a secondary burial intrusive into the periphery of the central mound. Substantial overlap of these dates suggests that the two events do not differ greatly in age. According to E.G. Walker (p.c. 1990), this mound differs significantly from those of the Devils Lake - Sourisford burial complex (see Syms 1979a), although it is similar in age.

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