Newsletter No. 19 - April 1988 Table of Contents: Shroud Carbon Dating to Go Ahead - A letter to Nature by Dr. Michael Tite Ian Wilson Writes - by Ian Wilson The Next BSTS Meeting - News of an upcoming

When carbon dating tests carried out on the Turin Shroud in 1988 were widely broadcast as 'proving' the cloth to be a medieval fake Lennox, unlike so many others, most admirably held steadfast to his

the taking of the carbon dating samples in April 1988, and this is an excellent technical study by him of the Shroud's 3.1 chevron twill weave, with comparisons with ancient textiles such as those of

BBC Timewatch on the Shroud made in 1988, shortly before the carbon-dating. The puzzle is that the organizers of the Exhibition had made no approach to the BSTS, to Rodney Hoare or to Ian Wilson, nor,

despite the carbon dating carried out in 1988, then we do ourselves (and far more importantly, our subject), absolutely no favours by paying Polonius-like lip-service to the inclusion of such elements

When published in 1989, the test results of carbon 14 of the Turin Shroud, led many scientists, agnostics and theists of various religious associations to celebrate their results on the "unmasking" of

despite the carbon dating carried out in 1988, then we do ourselves (and far more importantly, our subject), absolutely no favours by paying Polonius-like lip-service to the inclusion of such elements

Issue #27, June 1988 TABLE OF CONTENTS Inside Front Cover Table of Contents Page......1 In Anticipation of Carbon 14 Dating of the Shroud of Turin by Jacques Evin......2 New Problems and Arguments

On October 13, 1988 it was announced that the carbon date for the Shroud was set between AD.1260-1390. In the February 16, 1989 issue of the British journal Nature the formal results were released.

for carbon dating was carried out in 1988. Also so far as is known the move is supposed to be only temporary, just while the Royal Chapel is undergoing repairs. But it deserves pointing out that the