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Published a peer-reviewed paper in Thermochimica Acta in 2005 arguing that the sample used in the 1988 radiocarbon dating was taken from a medieval repair patch rather than the main body of the cloth, casting doubt on the validity of the dating result.
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Rogers's 2005 paper in Thermochimica Acta argued the original 1988 radiocarbon sample was taken from a medieval repair patch, not the main cloth body, undermining the dating result
Source: Thermochimica Acta (2005); referenced in research summary and institutional-historian agent finding
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