the recently retired Director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, has written a vigorous response to John Tyrer in the latest (January 1990) issue of Textile Horizons. According to Hall: "

RADIOCARBON DATING As most BSTS members are aware, any decision on carbon dating the Shroud awaits optimum technical advances in the new, small-sample dating techniques. Three laboratories have been

For many years we had no radiocarbon date for any location on the Shroud. So we used “internal evidences” based largely upon cultural items from which to extrapolate the date. The real 7 Is

If Shroud `enthusiasts' cannot get this right on artefacts well understood within the historical domain, they lose all credibility and mandate for challenging the science of radiocarbon dating...

a little to the north-east of Urfa. Radiocarbon dated to 9000 years old, and believed to be of linen, the semi-fossilized fragment was found by archaeologists from the University of Chicago and from

Concerning the Russian paper on the radiocarbon dating of the Shroud, first, the implication that C13/C12 ratio of -25‰ was assumed by the radiocarbon dating laboratories is incorrect. The C13/C12

RADIOCARBON DATING Any positive date for the radio-carbon dating test to be carried out continues to elude us. Nick White of the Oxford Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art,

Professor Hall attended the special Conference on Shroud radiocarbon- dating, and his laboratory, founded in 1954, is one of only two in this country likely to receive samples of the Shroud for radiocarbon-

other bookmakers to take a bet on the outcome of the Shroud radiocarbon dating. So far, with commendable good taste, the bookmakers have declined. In frustration she has invited the Society to place