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- Lab number
- Beta-17909
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on a low terrace beside the Gaspereau River, Kings County, Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 21 H/01
- Submitter
- R.J. Nash
- Date submitted
- October 8, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 790 ± 60
- Significance
- Woodland; Sylvicole
- Context
- Area 2, Level 3, 2N/6E, hearth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia 3: Castor canadensis, Lutra canadensis, Marmota monax; Pisces, Gadidae
- Comments
- BgDb-7, Coldwell Farm: This is at the northwest corner of the Melanson site. Beta-17909 was associated with calcined beaver bones and charred seeds that were recovered by flotation of the matrix. Beta-17910 was recovered from general matrix below the plow zone near the eastern end of the excavations.