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The Courtrai chest from New College, Oxford, re-examined

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

E.T. Hall
E.T. Hall*
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ
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Abstract

The first and obvious strength of AMS and other small-sample radiocarbon techniques is in the tiny quantities of material they destroy, opening the way for 14C determinations on little and precious objects – fabric and pictures, for examples – from which no curator will sacrifice a large chunk. In this case, the object is a more substantial thing, but the point still applies; and the size of its timbers has made possible a completely independent and confirming date by dendrochronology.

This paper follows the normal ANTIQUITY convention of b.p. for uncalibrated dates.

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Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 231 , March 1987 , pp. 104 - 107
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1987

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