That is not the reason. It would take more than the weight of the original material in soot from the fire to skew the date by enough to bring a first century artifact into the 14th century... so that cannot be the source of the contamination. We KNOW the reason the C14 date was skewed... and we know the source of the contamination... they accurately tested a 16th century PATCH combined with some original material... a mix of original and patch... resulting in a spurious date. This has been proved by THREE different approaches in THREE different peer-reviewed, published studies. The C14 test has been falsified. . . because the scientists doing it broke protocol!
So the “experts” tested a 16th century patch to the original shroud? Didn’t know that....thank-you for clarifying.
No wonder the carbon dating tests were useless.