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A comment on Shell Grotto, Margate.

Re:Shell Grotto, Margate by popol12 on Sunday November 16, 2025 @10:45PM (#45950683)
Why can’t someone do a carbon 14 datation of the shells to close the debate ?
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Re:Shell Grotto, Margate by ninalanyon on Monday November 17, 2025 @06:13AM (#45952602)
I can think of several plausible reasons:

- it costs money and no one wants to pay,

- the mystery is more interesting or amusing than the resolution of the mystery,

- carbon dating is unreliable for dates following the industrial revolution because the burning of coal and oil ejected vast quantities of depleted carbon into the atmosphere.

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