AMS, Historical and Archaeological Dating in the Oponice Castle

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Styková, Barbora - Styk, M. - Světlík, Ivo - Megisová, Natália - Petrová, Markéta - Repka, D.
AMS, Historical and Archaeological Dating in the Oponice Castle.
24th Radiocarbon Conference. 10th 14C & Archaeology Conference. Zurich, 11-16 September 2022. Book of abstracts. Zurich: ETH Zurich, 2022, č. článku A03_P20. ISBN N.
[Radiocarbon Conference /24./ 14C & Archaeology Conference /10./. 11.09.2022-16.09.2022, Zurich]
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT EF16_019/0000728
Institutional support: RVO:61389005
Keywords : dating * mass spectrometry
OECD category: Analytical chemistry

The 5th season of Oponice castle excavation in 2022 was located in the lower castle´s courtyard. There was discovered original clay floor strongly burned with charred plank and a rectangular stone‐brick structure laying on it. This structure has collapsed upper part with a fallen low brick arc. In whole space were also documented numerous stove tiles fragments same as the discovery of one clay mould for the production of front heating walls of chamber tiles. Based on it this structure was identified as a pottery kiln dated to the second half of the 16th till the first half of the 17th century AD by the findings from excavated layer, which was probably related to kiln destruction. At the same time, the written sources mention big fire in 1645 caused the end of the castle. Different types of samples were collected for AMS dating to CRL (Czech Radiocarbon Laboratory) in Prague. This sampling was focused on site formation process determination of pottery kiln use and the way of its destruction. Applying of Bayesian analysis tent to improve overall dating and historical events recreating. The results and methodology of the radiocarbon dating will be presented in poster form.
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