Corrispondenza Romana, dated September 20, provided additional information. The main outline of this article is given below. Cardinal Anastasio Ballestrero, the former archbishop of Turin, in an interview

the circumstances of the carbon dating, etc., Emanuela Marinelli carefully reviews the various forgery and conspiracy theorists, such as Walter McCrone, Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince, Holger Kersten and

carbon dating technology. The scale of the laboratory's achievements came to public prominence in 1988, when Hall's team were allowed to examine a fragment of the Turin Shroud. The material was dated

AMS) method of carbon dating, a method only introduced in the last few years, requiring a very high capital outlay, still jockeying for full acceptance, and still comparatively little tried on textiles.

COTTON ON THE OXFORD CARBON DATING SAMPLE Kindly brought to our attention by the Revd. Kim Dreisbach of Atlanta is a hitherto unnoticed report in the journal Textile Horizons of December 1988 concerning

the C-14 age of a sample of the fabric which gave a date of AD 1260-1390. Independently of the age and origin, no scientifically agreed theory of image formation has yet been formulated, much less

The Centro Español de Sindonología was founded in 1988 by Manuela Corsini de Ordeig and since then has gone from strength to strength under the leadership of Jorge Manuel Rodríguez and a devoted

famous carbon 14 test carried out in 1988, a test claimed as ‘proving’ the Shroud to be mediaeval. Amongst her other surprise findings is that the Shroud’s large, lozenge-shaped water-stains,

Professor Harry Gove, co-inventor of the AMS carbon dating method 3 used on the Shroud in 1988, and at the time a staunch defender of the medieval date obtained, has since declared that the dating

at the taking of the samples for carbon-dating, insisted that whether or not the Shroud is first century, or from the Middle Ages, its weave is very unusual; he knew of no comparable example before