Other sites tested:

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1) Flanders Moss? 14C dates good so far but more dates needed as 2 m still early Medieval?: Tim Mighall currently working on this site. 

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2) Red Moss of Netherly and Red Moss of Blairdaff and Cluny: All cores peat has unfortunately been cut at the top - early Medieval period missing but poss Younger Dryas - early Holocene sequence - not for current project but donated to a PhD project

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3) Dundurn Hillfort? Early medieval period missing, donaed to a PhD project.

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4) Inchtuthill? - Sediments too young - Need to try a new location but no time left in this project.

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5) Mull - several cores extracted for a diff project are available. Radiocarbon dates positive: Tim Mighall is currently working on this site

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6) Burghead 14C dates pending but samples have been taken directly from the early Medieval archaeological contexts. Samantha Jones - (me ;o) ) is currently working on this. Preservation so far is a pain in the ..... but there are identifiable pollen grains in various states of preservation/degradation including cereal types and plenty of herbivore coprophilous indicators (slides absolutely full of coprophilous fungal spores) so I will persist with this one.