1st February 2012, 01:59 PM
Oxbeast Wrote:Coins? Gravestones? Scientific dating?Coins= can be minted any time with the stamp grossly out of date, and are often used for political reasons (at the time)
Gravestones= can also be made at any time. There's one I believe that was completed 100 years after the body was interred. Name any person today who got a gravestone placed the instant they were placed in the grave. The stone mason would want to work fast and the cemetery wouldn't allow placement unitl the subsidence period is through
Scientific dating
C14 dating: semi-inacurate-even with medieval sites
Dendrochronology: slightly more acurate but harder to find viable material to date
Stratigraphical dating: almost useless in urban areas when used alone
those solid foundations don't look so solid now do they?