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Radiocarbon Sample Information
| Gd-436 Biskupice Furn 23 Age: 2020 ± 155 BP δ 13C: -25.00‰ (PBD) |
| Sample name: | Biskupice Furn 23 |
| Submitter: | Woyda Stefan |
| Institution: |
Muzeum Starożytnego Hutnictwa Mazowieckiego Plac Jana Pawła II 05-800 Pruszków |
| Collector: Date of collection: |
Woyda Stefan Oct 1976 |
| Additional information: | base of smelting furnace No.23, a layer of very dark deposit containing lumps of charcoal and ferruginous slag, depth 80cm |
| Material of sample: | charcoal |
| Contamination: | none |
| Type of site: | excavation |
| Field of study: | archaeology |
| Sample location: | |
| Site name: | Biskupice |
| Latitude: | 52 10 00N |
| Longitude: | 20 43 00E |
| Detailed description of the sample location: | |
| Biskupice near Brwinow, on floodplain terrace of Zimna Woda river. | |
| Environment description: | |
| Site 1 of iron foundry settlement, dated to 1st century BC/4th century AD. Excavations started in 1976 in 7000m2 area and resulted in discovery of 580 smelting furnaces, 3 limekilns and 10 pit dwellings. | |
| References to literature: | Radiocarbon Data List VI |
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