<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 07/11/03, BILLGJ@a... writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I realise that carbon-14 or thermoluminescence dating is not going to be appropriate, but what about theprecious-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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What if the bell is recast?? So much for that bright idea. . .<BR>
BillGJ<BR>
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