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- Lab number
- DAL-241
- Material dated
- wood; bois
- Locality
- near Freeport, Digby County, Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 21 B/08
- Submitter
- Nova Scotia Museum
- Date submitted
- May 17, 0099
- Measured Age
- 0
- Normalized Age
- 0
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Historic, Acadian; Historique, Acadien
- Context
- outer rings of an axe-hewn log canoe exposed in a dike wall breached by a severe coastal storm
- Additional information
- 102 +/- 1.2% modern.
- Comments
- BbDn-no #, Freeport canoe: A canoe was cut from a log about 61 cm in diameter and about 4 m long. According to J.G. Ogden, evidence of metal axe shaping and the contemporary date suggest an Acadian origin for this specimen.