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Canada / NB / BgDr-66 (Loyalist) / Beta-57995
- Lab number
- Beta-57995
- Material dated
- marine shell; coquillage
- Taxa dated
- Mya arenaria
- Locality
- Bliss Islands, Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick
- Map sheet
- 21 G/02
- Submitter
- D.W. Black
- Date submitted
- November 12, 0097
- Measured Age
- 60 ± 50
- Normalized Age
- 500 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- 1.9
- Significance
- historic; historique
- Stratigraphic component
- Layer 2
- Context
- unit W11, layer 2
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Castor canadensis, Microtus pennsylvanicus, Lepus americanus, Martes americana, Mustela sp, Lutra canadensis, Felis domesticus, Bos taurus, Sus scrofa, Capra hircus, Ovis aries; Aves Pisces
- Comments
- BgDr-66, Loyalist: This represents the Loyalist occupation of the Bliss homestead and is known to have spanned a 20-year interval from AD 1783 to AD 1803. Black (1995a) uses this marine shell date to calculate the local marine reservoir effect. Fauna: Aves: Anserini, Anas acuta, Bucephala albeola, Bucephala clangula, Mergus serrator, Somateria mollissima, Gallus gallus, Larus argentatus, Larus marinus, Alca torda, Cepphus grylle, Uria lomvia, Junco hyemalis, Corvus brachyrhynchos; Pisces: Squalus acanthias, Gadus morhua, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, Pollachius virens; Mollusca: Nucella lapillus, Buccinum undatum, Neptunea decemcostata, Colus stimpsoni, Littorina, Mya arenaria, Hiatella arctica, Placopecten magellanicus, Modiolus modiolus, Mytilus edulis; Arthropoda: Balanus