Shroud. But it was also critical to rehabilitate the STURP group’s reputation, which had been somewhat tarnished, in part by their own actions (or lack of actions) after we returned from Turin. And

JUNE 2017 PAGE 29 BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE TURIN SHROUD NEWSLETTER 85 ! The essence of the book is of course the need for more testing, in order to verify a very detailed hypothesis concerning what

The Shroud is the famous cloth, housed in Turin, Italy, which many believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. It is fourteen feet long by three feet wide and contains faint images of a nude, bloodied,

1) Ogden, J. Gordon, The Use and Abuse of Radiocarbon Dating, New York Academy of Science, Vol. 288, 1977, pp.167-173. (2) G. Raes, Rapport d’Analise, La S. Sindone, Rivista Diocesana Torinese,

examinations' results, probably astonishing the radiocarbon experts themselves, who consulted with one another in an attempt to come to a "common average dating". In fact, the three radiodating examinations

present on the Shroud of Turin. 3. Since there are no records of this type of artwork ever being produced, Leonardo would have had to destroy any notes he kept on this process, smash the sculpture

It is still widely reported that the radiocarbon dating is faulty, despite clear evidence from photography and the meticulous examination by Mechthild Flury- Lemberg in 2002 that showed that the samples

AMS' method of radiocarbon dating that would ultimately be used on the Shroud: Dear Prof. Gove I write this in strictest confidence. You may know about the Turin Shroud or not. A great deal of very

which dated the Turin Shroud as being from the mediaeval period.' Ian Macdonald, QC, defence counsel, said the verdict seriously undermined the authority of the Oxford tests: 'If you can get a date

is nevertheless working on a theory that the radiocarbon dates are wrong because one of the University of Arizona team, Timothy Linick, was a JUNE 2014 PAGE 63 BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE TURIN SHROUD