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Canada / NS / BcDb-1 (Whynacht Cove) / S-183
- Lab number
- S-183
- Material dated
- marine shell; coquillage
- Taxa dated
- Crassostrea virginica
- Locality
- at Whynacht Cove, Mahone Bay, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 21 A/08
- Submitter
- A.H. Clarke
- Date submitted
- July 7, 0097
- Measured Age
- 1290 ± 75
- Normalized Age
- 1700 ± 105
- δ13C (per mil)
- -0.0
- Significance
- Woodland; Sylvicole
- Context
- shell heap, lowermost of three levels
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odocoileus sp; Mollusca: Crassostrea virginica
- Comments
- BcDb-1, Whynacht Cove: This is a shell heap with three levels. Erskine notes that the first level contained Indian Garden points. Antler tines of the white-tailed deer occurred near the bottom, and fragments of caribou antler were found in the upper 20 cm. This represented the earliest definite find of caribou in Nova Scotia. Oysters are now locally extirpated, and no oyster shells were found in the upper levels of this site.