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documenting photographs
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chemical properties of the sample site
Textile experts, at the behest of Benford and Marino, examined documenting photographs of the samples and found visual evidence of reweaving. Based on estimates from these photographs, and an a historically-likely suggested date for reweaving, Ronald Hatfield of the radiocarbon dating firm Beta Analytic estimated that the cloth might be 2000 years old.
Archeologist William Meacham had wondered the same thing as Ball and he discussed this possibility with the archeological scientist Stuart Fleming who said that it was within the realm of possibility. But Meacham was not completely convinced. He challenged Benford and Marino, “to find at least one textile historian who could answer these questions [about it escaping notice] in support of their thesis.”
They did so. According to Meacham, “Dr. Thomas Campbell, Associate Curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Arts, described the sixteenth century French weavers as ‘magicians’ and said ‘it was very difficult to identify their repairs’.”
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