Carbon Dating

The flax from which linen comes was chopped down in the first century, it stopped replenishing its carbon and now we can get an exact date. But what they didn't tell you in 1988 is that each of these laboratories, again, Arizona, Zurich and Oxford, got different dates. And so if it's 1240 and then 1440 within a couple of centimeters, like what's the date when I move 4.4 meters to the right? Like is it a date in the future when I get over there? They just said, oh, we're sure it's from the middle ages. It was just really disappointing. So do you think if this carbon dating was allowed to take place