Carbon Date. 4800BC. Mesolithic Carbon Dates

Report: Bone: Bos

ID: 6267, C14 ID: OxA-627 Date BP: 6800 +/- 100, Start Date BP: 6700, End BP: 6900

Abstract: Dorset Cursus, England

Archaeologist Name: Bradley

Reference Name: Archaeometry 28(1), 1986, 116-125

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Carbon Date. 4460BC. Mesolithic Carbon Dates

Report: bone:Bos ?

ID: 6268, C14 ID: OxA-628 Date BP: 6460 +/- 140, Start Date BP: 6320, End BP: 6600

Abstract: Dorset Cursus, England

Archaeologist Name: Bradley

Reference Name: Archaeometry 28(1), 1986, 116-125

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Carbon Date. 3160BC. Middle Neolithic Carbon Dates

Report: Collagen from antler, ref sample 3, id as red deer by J W Jackson, from group of bone and antler found together on surface of buried soil beneath N quadrant of long barrow at Thickthorn Down, Gussage St Michael, Cranborne Chase, Dorset, England. Subm R Bradley 1983. Sample had been treated with PVA and was cleaned with acetone but sone contamination may have survived pretreatment. Comment (subm): should provide tpq for long barrow aligned on S terminal of Dorset Cursus; date seems anomalously early compared with those for long barrows of similar form and some contamination is likely.

ID: 8877, C14 ID: BM-2355 Date BP: 5160 +/- 45, Start Date BP: 5115, End BP: 5205

OS Letter: ST, OS East: 971, OS North: 123

Archaeologist Name: Drew & S Piggott, 1936

Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 29, 1987, 180; Proc Dorset Archaeol Natur Hist Soc, 107, 1985, 174-6

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Carbon Date. 2770BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates

Report: Bone: Bos

ID: 6265, C14 ID: OxA-626 Date BP: 4770 +/- 120, Start Date BP: 4650, End BP: 4890

Abstract: Dorset Cursus, England

Archaeologist Name: Bradley

Reference Name: Archaeometry 28(1), 1986, 116-125

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Carbon Date. 2570BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates

Report: Bone: Bos

ID: 6263, C14 ID: OxA-624 Date BP: 4570 +/- 120, Start Date BP: 4450, End BP: 4690

Abstract: Dorset Cursus, England

Archaeologist Name: Bradley

Reference Name: Archaeometry 28(1), 1986, 116-125

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Carbon Date. 2510BC. Late Neolithic Carbon Dates

Report: Collagen, id as antler, red deer beam and tine (Annie Grant), Ref. 79a, from lowest silt of cursus ditch, at Dorchester Site VIII [Map], Oxfordshire, England. Subm R Bradley. Comment (subm): Confirms chronological context of cursus monuments (cf Dorset Cursus, BM-2438).

ID: 1874, C14 ID: BM-2443 Date BP: 4510 +/- 100, Start Date BP: 4410, End BP: 4610

OS Letter: SU, OS East: 582, OS North: 948

Archaeologist Name: R J C Atkinson 1949

Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 31, 1989, 18; Oxford J Archaeol, 7, 1988, 271-89; Proc Prehist Soc, 58, 1992, 143-201

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Carbon Date. 2440BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates

Report: Bone: Bos

ID: 6264, C14 ID: OxA-625 Date BP: 4440 +/- 100, Start Date BP: 4340, End BP: 4540

Abstract: Dorset Cursus, England

Archaeologist Name: Bradley

Reference Name: Archaeometry 28(1), 1986, 116-125

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Carbon Date. 2490BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates

Report: Antler collagen, id as red deer (A Legge), from pick in partially stabilised surface on top of primary ditch silts, sealed by secondary silts containing Mortlake and Fengate wares, at Dorset Cursus (Down Farm Woodcutts), Cranborne Chase, Dorset, England. Comment (subm): Consistent with OxA-624/625/626. The large antler pick is unlikely to have moved around in soil profile; this date is therefore more secure in context than the muh smaller samples submitted to Oxford.

ID: 1359, C14 ID: BM-2438 Date BP: 4490 +/- 60, Start Date BP: 4430, End BP: 4550

Abstract: Sequence from cursus ditch

Archaeologist Name: Richard Bradley (1984)

Reference Name: Bradley, R, in Gowlett, J A J & Hedges, R E M (eds), 'Archaeological results from accelerator dating' (Oxford, 1986), 139-41; Barrett, J et al (eds), 'Papers on the prehistoric archaeology of Cranborne Chase' (Oxford, 1991)

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Carbon Date. 2040BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates

Report: Antler collagen, id as red deer by A Grant, from Pit 1, Layer 5, from silt in rapidly filled pit 1 (of 27 in pit circle aligned on Dorset Cursus) at Wyke Down, Down Farm, Cranborne Chase, Dorset, England. Subm RB 1984. Comment (subm): this and BM-2396/7 show site to be among earlier henge monuments in lowland Britain and somewhat earlier than superficially similar site at Maumbury Rings [Map] (BM-2281R). [Ed: See also comment in second ref below.]

ID: 8889, C14 ID: BM-2395 Date BP: 4040 +/- 90, Start Date BP: 3950, End BP: 4130

Abstract: Single-entrance pit-circle henge

Archaeologist Name: R Bradley 1984

Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 29, 1987, 182-3; Barrett J et al (eds), 'Papers on the prehistoric archaeology of Cranborne Chase' (Oxbow Monogr 11, 1991), 9; Barrett J et al (eds), 'Landscape, monuments and society: the prehistory of Cranborne Chase' (CUP, 1991)

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Carbon Date. 1870BC. Middle Bronze Age Carbon Dates

Report: Charcoal, ref F31 L2, id as Quercus sp over 15 yr old by M Robinson, from middle fill of pit in Cluster 2 of features beside pond barrow, assoc with middle Beaker pottery (similar to material from upper fill of Dorset Cursus, 40m away) at Down Farm, Cranborne Chase, Dorset, England. Subm RB 1980. Comment (subm): This date and BM-2191R are consistent with general sequence of Beaker domestic pottery; both date Beaker settlement cut by features of pond barrow (BM-2189R etc). [Ed: some inaccurately published NGRs are corrected here.]

ID: 8864, C14 ID: BM-2325 Date BP: 3870 +/- 50, Start Date BP: 3820, End BP: 3920

Abstract: Beaker settlement cut by features of pond barrow

Archaeologist Name: R Bradley 1980

Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 29, 1987, 62-3; Barrett J & Bradley R (eds), 'Papers on the prehistoric archaeology of Cranborne Chase' (Oxbow Monogr, 11), 1991, 9; Barrett J et al (eds), 'Landscape, monuments and society: the prehistory of Cranborne Chase' (CUP, 1991)

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Carbon Date. 450BC. Middle Iron Age Carbon Dates

Report: Bone collagen, ref PH12 L1, id as Bos sp long bone by A Legge, from fill of post hole of oval structure between pond barrow and Dorset Cursus at Down Farm, Cranborne Chase, Dorset, England. Subm RB 1982. Comment (subm): date shows this group of otherwise undated post holes actually relates to early Iron Age activity.

ID: 8895, C14 ID: BM-2416 Date BP: 2450 +/- 110, Start Date BP: 2340, End BP: 2560

Abstract: Unassociated post hole group

Archaeologist Name: R Bradley 1982

Reference Name: Radiocarbon, 29, 1987, 185; Barrett J et al (eds), 'Papers on the prehistoric archaeology of Cranborne Chase' (Oxbow Monogr 11, 1991), 9; Barrett J et al (eds), 'Landscape, monuments and society: the prehistory of Cranborne Chase' (CUP, 1991)

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