WERE THE RADIOCARBON DATES MANIPULATED? Since the announcement of the C14 results in October 1988, this Newsletter has consistently distanced itself from allegations that the carbon dating findings

using the techniques that showed the Turin shroud to be a late medieval forgery' the laboratories insisted 'the margin of error in this case is less than 1 per cent.' But .a complication arose when,

and rejected, for radiocarbon dating. The Shroud is also 'scrupulosamente' measured by Monsignor Gastaldi, bishop of Saluzzo and later archbishop of Turin, and found (wrongly) to be 410 cm x 140 cm.

travelled to Turin for the Second International Congress of Sindonology, though he did not take part in STURP's direct examination of the Shroud that followed this. The radiocarbon dating of the Shroud

such as the d’Arcis memorandum and the radiocarbon dating, and the contemporaneous theological and artistic emphasis on the physical suffering of Christ, I believe there is a substantial case for

first volume consists of the Proceedings of the 1999 Shroud of Turin International Research Conference, Richmond, Virginia, a truly excellent meeting, at which I was myself present. The books has been

Twenty years on the radiocarbon dating has pushed the Shroud back into the shadows, the number of potential speakers with real expertise has dwindled to a trickle, added to which travel into central London

to the radiocarbon dating of 1988, and several recent scientific papers. ! In the last issue I mentioned Professor Gérard Lucotte’s ongoing examination of a tiny sliver of sticky-tape given him

His involvement with the Turin Shroud began in 1982. He also wrote a novel, Young Men at War, and edited the Country Gentleman Magazine and the Kluwer Handbook of Security. He became a frequent broadcaster

association with scientific analysis suggest that Turin Shroud should be with high probability older than what is suggested by radiocarbon analysis. One of the more difficult steps in writing the chronology