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- Lab number
- S-1241
- Field number
- CMC- 877- 881
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- 12.9 km north of Kisbey on the highest dome-shaped hill of the area, 785 m asl, Moose Mountain Creek, Souris drainage, Saskatchewan
- Map sheet
- 62 E/15
- Submitter
- T.F. Kehoe
- Date submitted
- July 11, 0096
- Measured Age
- 2650 ± 245
- Normalized Age
- 2650 ± 245
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- culture?
- Context
- five small samples from various contexts within the medicine wheel
- Comments
- DkMq-2, Moose Mountain Medicine Wheel: Five small charcoal samples collected by T.F. Kehoe from west of center in the central cairn, and from datum to 30 cm above datum, were combined to obtain a radiocarbon date. The stone configuration forms a medicine wheel consisting of central cairn, 9.1 m diam, surrounded by a stone circle, 15.2 to 18.3 m diam, with five lines of stone extending in several directions terminating in stone cairns, 0.9 m diam. Cultural affiliation is unknown. Charcoal in the black earth indicates that the site burned over before the central cairn and rock feature were built. Prairie side-notched points lay directly above the basal rocks of the central cairn and may date later than the basal configuration. Kehoe considers S-1241 to be a date on the initial construction of the central cairn (Kehoe and Kehoe 1979: 42). However, given the composite origin of the sample, the date is not clearly associated with any particular target.