A routine excavation turned out to be a historical one for archaeologists in Britain when they came across a well-preserved ...

This is often the layers of sediment surround the tool. Dating can be done by radiocarbon dating or other techniques which look at the amounts of elements like iron or potassium. It is the assumed ...

SEVERAL articles 1–3 have described efforts to reconcile radiocarbon ages with “true ages”. The principle behind these procedures lies in the determination of a radiocarbon age and its ...

Only one other Bronze Age wooden tool like this has been recovered in Britain - discovered in a Cheshire mine in 1875 and eventually radiocarbon dated in 1993 and revealed to be nearly 4,000 years ...

By Elizabeth Hunter via SWNS Archaeologists have discovered a 3,000-year-old spade - one of the oldest and most complete ...

The wooden spade, almost 3,000 years old, was discovered during archaeological excavations by Wessex Archaeology.

In order to determine how “old” this dissolved organic carbon is, its natural radiocarbon activity has been measured for two deep-water samples taken off southern California.

Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old spade made of oak, one of the oldest and most complete wooden tools ever ...