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Cast Iron Carbon Dating?

Hi I found a rivet whilst diving a shipwreck is there any way of dating the wreck.
Litza


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  1. pisgahchemist
    July 16th, 2010 at 10:20 | #1
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    You certainly can’t use C-14 dating on the metal, but you can on wood. Carbon dating is an expensive, time consuming process, and not one that would be practical for an individual. It’s likely that you could find other clues to the age of the wreck that would be more practical.

    The name of the ship. Type of ship. Type of construction. Cargo. Anything with information stamped or written on it.

    Find out when shipbuilders first started using metal rivets. That would put a boundary on how old it could be.

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