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Canada / NS / BkCq-10 (Cox/Swanson) / S-1604
- Lab number
- S-1604
- Field number
- CMC-1015
- Material dated
- marine shell; coquillage
- Locality
- on a headland, 1-3 m asl, on the west bank of the mouth of Caribou River, 9 km north-northwest of Pictou, Pictou County, Nova Scotia
- Map sheet
- 11 E/15
- Submitter
- D.L. Keenlyside
- Date submitted
- July 4, 0097
- Measured Age
- 700 ± 45
- Normalized Age
- 1110 ± 85
- δ13C (per mil)
- -0.0
- Significance
- Late Prehistoric; Préhistorique récente
- Context
- Test pit 3, Level 2, 40-42 cm depth, in shell, gravel and red brown silt
- Comments
- BkCq-10, Cox/Swanson: This is a seasonally occupied shell midden, probably ancestral Micmac. Ceramic comparisons suggest an age of 1050-550 BP.