Radiocarbon dating of the Church of St. Margaret of Antioch in Kopčany (Slovakia): International consortium results

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61389005%3A_____%2F25%3A00602772" target="_blank" >RIV/61389005:_____/25:00602772 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11320/26:7CFC6KPG

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/radiocarbon-dating-of-the-church-of-st-margaret-of-antioch-in-kopcany-slovakia-international-consortium-results/59700823543387B8C008AEFB838FA15A" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/radiocarbon-dating-of-the-church-of-st-margaret-of-antioch-in-kopcany-slovakia-international-consortium-results/59700823543387B8C008AEFB838FA15A</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2024.115" target="_blank" >10.1017/RDC.2024.115</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Radiocarbon dating of the Church of St. Margaret of Antioch in Kopčany (Slovakia): International consortium results

Original language description

An international consortium of radiocarbon laboratories has established the origin of the Church of St. Margaret of Antioch in Kopčany (Slovakia), because its age was not well known from previous investigations. In total, 13 samples of charcoal, wood, mortar, and plaster were analyzed. The 14C results obtained from the different laboratories, as well as between the different sample types, were in good agreement. Resulting the final 14C calibrated age of the Church, based on dating a single piece of a wooden levelling rod is 774–884 AD (95.4% confidence level), which is in very good agreement with Bayesian modeling result based on dating of wood, charcoal and mortar samples (788–884 AD, 95.4% confidence level). The probability distribution from OxCal calibration shows that 79% of the probability distribution lies in the period before 863 AD, implying that the Church could have been constructed before the arrival of Constantine (St. Cyril) and St. Methodius to Great Moravia. If we take as the terminus post quem the documented date of consecration of the church in Nitrava (828 AD), the Bayesian modeling suggests the age of the Church in the range of 837–884 AD (95.4% confidence level). Although the 14C results have very good precision, the specific plateau shape of the calibration curve in this period caused a wide range of the calibrated age. The Church represents, together with the St. George’s Rotunda in Nitrianska Blatnica, probably the oldest standing purpose-built Christian church in the eastern part of Central Europe.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10301 - Atomic, molecular and chemical physics (physics of atoms and molecules including collision, interaction with radiation, magnetic resonances, Mössbauer effect)

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000728" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000728: Ultra-trace isotope research in social and environmental studies using accelerator mass spectrometry</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Radiocarbon

ISSN

0033-8222

e-ISSN

1945-5755

Volume of the periodical

67

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

135-154

UT code for WoS article

001371538500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85211700951