Charcoal band, 40 to 50 cm, radiocarbon dated
A charcoal-rich band at the base of the bleached horizon, dated to the fourth millennium BCE.
3600 to 3300 BCE · Abernethy Forest, Strathspey, Scotland · CTF-EDA-000003
About this record
Charcoal fragments were radiocarbon dated (calibrated). The band records a fire in the pinewood in the Neolithic. Whether people or lightning set it cannot be told from this sample alone.
Connections
Found in
- Pinewood podzol profile, AbernethyT1 Recorded2021 · link T1
The charcoal band sits at the base of the E horizon of this profile.
Chronos Terra field survey 2021.