Actually, if the hilt is wrapped in leather, or other organic matter, you can still use this datation, as Emmin said up there. Btw, I don't think you can datate carbon in the steel. Only if you used recently-made carbon and not, say, carbon from a mine, to make the alloy.zombiepancakes wrote:Im pretty sure carbon dating only works on organic matter (things that were once living). I dont think you couldn't carbon date a swordRaptor wrote:If they do carbon dating on them, it would appear they're newly made.
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