<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Thanks for all your suggestions about dating this bell. I am overwhelmed at the speed of response, being used to reading my email once a day!<BR>
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No, I "forgot" to tell you the tower, not to whet your appetite but becauseI was looking for general suggestions rather than specific - hoping to learn by doing as well as to get an answer!<BR>
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I realise that carbon-14 or thermoluminescence dating is not going to be appropriate, but what about the precious-metal content? My recollection is that (particularly) lead used to contain significant quantities of precious metals. But I don't know when they began to extract these before using the lead. However, as nobody has mentioned this, presumably it is not used.<BR>
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I do have a photo, and will see if I can post it.<BR>
The bell has not been shown to be pre-reformation, so is probably not on any list. I just considered that as it was not marked, it might be fairly old, but I could be wrong. I hope you will be able to say when I get that photo posted.<BR>
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Regards<BR>
Bill<BR>
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