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Radiocarbon accelerator (AMS) dating of Lindow Man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

J. A. J. Gowlett ,
R. E. M. Hedges  and
I. A. Law
J. A. J. Gowlett
Affiliation:
Institute of Prehistoric Sciences and Archaeology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX
R. E. M. Hedges
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ
I. A. Law
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ
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‘Pete Marsh’, the bog body from Lindow Moss in Cheshire that is properly called ‘Lindow 2’, has given remarkable research opportunities. One of these-perhaps less expected-has been the study of the considerable discrepancies in the suites of dates for the body obtained by two radiocarbon laboratories. The laboratories think this is a specific anomaly which has no implications for any other dates, but one may wonder how many other anomalies would declare themselves if more sites had so many determinations that should relate to the same event.

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 238 , March 1989 , pp. 71 - 79
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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