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- Lab number
- Beta-42659
- Field number
- 1981-22
- Material dated
- oak charcoal; charbon de chêne
- Taxa dated
- Quercus sp. (2.7 g, id. by D. Laeyendecker)
- Locality
- Countess of Warwick Sound, southern Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 25 I/14
- Submitter
- W.W. Fitzhugh
- Date submitted
- July 17, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 320 ± 90
- Significance
- Historic, Frobisher; Historique
- Stratigraphic component
- Structure 2
- Context
- assay shop, structure 2, interior test pit
- Comments
- KeDe-1, Kodlunarn Island: Samples were collected from various contexts in the site occupied by Martin Frobisher, AD 1576-1578. Laeyendecker summarizes 17 radiocarbon dates from this site. Harbottle and others describe the preparation of iron samples from blooms discovered at or traced to the site.