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Canada / NS / BiCt-? (Truro) / DAL-242
- Lab number
- DAL-242
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- near Truro, Colchester County, Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 11 E/06
- Submitter
- C.M. Shipley
- Date submitted
- March 9, 0098
- Measured Age
- 440 ± 90
- Normalized Age
- 440 ± 90
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- geoarchaeology; géoarchéologie
- Context
- "fireplace #10," 38-46 cm below present land surface stripped by housing development at crest of hill (ca. 30 cm removed), 70 m asl
- Comments
- BiCt-no #, Truro: Shipley commented that this was one of several fireplaces constructed or rock with apparent mortaring of joints. However, archaeologists who have visited the locality declare that it is not an archaeological site, and the dated charcoal is believed to represent a forest fire.