13th October 2011, 07:06 PM
P Prentice Wrote:not start again but use with caution - have you recalibrated old dates? -the error factor often still makes even single object dates worthless
Afraid around here am usually using C14 to tell what era things are, don't usually have the advantage of finds like what they have on fancy sites down south - site I've been digging since April has produced 5 scrappy non-diagnostic flints and a practically non-existent skelly so far, no pot or other dateables - so even broad date-ranges have their uses, personally in an ideal world I wouldn't touch little bits of charcoal from the decay-cone within a postpipe with a barge pole, but if that's all you've got......hence my recently acquired enthusiasm for OSL!