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The radiocarbon dating programmes of The National Museums of Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alison Sheridan
Alison Sheridan*
Affiliation:
Archaeology Department, National Museums of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, Scotland. asheridan@nms.ac.uk
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Since 1991, the Archaeology Department of the National Museums of Scotland (NMS) has been undertaking programmes of AMS radiocarbon dating of organic items in its collections, particularly wetland finds. This work was initially stimulated by the success of Caroline Earwood’s research on dating bog butter containers and other wooden vessels from the National collections (Earwood 1990; 1993a; 1993b; 1997), which demonstrated among other things that the practice of bog butter deposition in Scotland extended at least as far back as the early centuries AD.

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Special section: Scotland 2002
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Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 293 , September 2002 , pp. 794 - 796
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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