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- Lab number
- Beta-2142
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on a small neck of land on the southwest side of Sunnyside Harbour, Newfoundland
- Map sheet
- 1 N/13
- Submitter
- C.O. Evans
- Date submitted
- August 28, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 1870 ± 180
- Significance
- Little Passage
- Context
- stratum II
- Additional information
- This site may be given as ClAl-3. The number was changed by the sites office (E. Anton, p.c. 1998.03.30).
- Comments
- ClAl-1, Frenchman's Island: The "island" is connected to the mainland by a 30 m beach that is awash only at the highest tide. It is a multi-component site with a contact period Beothuck component, a Dorset component, a pre-contact Beothuck occupation and two artifacts suggesting the presence of Maritime Archaic material. I-11077 and Beta-2142 pertain to the pre-contact Beothuck component, and a younger date (unknown lab number) is associated with the underlying Dorset component. Evans suggests that this anomalous date must reflect contamination of the charcoal sample.