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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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