Just a quick question .

Rocsteddie · May 18, 2016

I ve been thinking about this for a while and I have no idea as to witch one of these materials would last longer while being buried underground for an extended perioded of time. Antler bone or medal. Be it copper or steel ?
Thanks for any feed back.

ARC · May 18, 2016

Out of your choices you stated...
Copper will out last them all.

GA_Boy · May 19, 2016

Copper longest
Steel/Bone depending on mass.
Marvin

cache finder · May 20, 2016

Rocsteddie said:
I ve been thinking about this for a while and I have no idea as to witch one of these materials would last longer while being buried underground for an extended perioded of time. Antler bone or medal. Be it copper or steel ?
Thanks for any feed back.

Copper, then the antler depending on the steel, someone just posted finding an antler handle knife and the blade was rusted gone but the antler was looking perfect.

Rocsteddie · May 23, 2016

cache finder said:
Copper, then the antler depending on the steel, someone just posted finding an antler handle knife and the blade was rusted gone but the antler was looking perfect.

The post you are referring to is in the BANNER scroll at top of Active Topics page and that is the reason I asked the question but I believe the bone handle was found separate from the blade and was reconstructed to fit the blade. JMO
The blade its self looks to be much more deteriorated than the bone handle that was attached to blade. IDK

DigIron2 · May 24, 2016

It is not uncommon for bone/stag to be preserved well in the ground. Allot more so then wood. Depending on the soil they come out of also seems to be a factor. Have found a couple wood handled pocket knife's probably hundred fifty two hundred years old with all the wood intact. Both came out of low somewhat swampy ground. Am thinking that's why they where preserved so well?