New Post: "I Do Listen to the Experts. Do YOU?"

[Mark Knowles]

Where is the evidence that error and variation in dating of historical documents like this is not commonplace? Is getting a date 100 years out quite normal when dating medieval objects without readable text? There seems to be an assumption that a higher precision in dating is normal, but where is the evidence for that? How accurately do you expect someone to be able to date an object like this without the assistance of carbon dating and on what basis do you expect that degree of accuracy?