The carbon dating tests were skewed because of carbon contamination from a fire in the Middle Ages that subjected the shroud to smoke damage at that time.
Also, I saw a study once about the shroud. In this study, a botanist found spores from specific plants on the shroud.
The plants which produced the spores were found only in Bethlehem, Nazareth, and other cities and towns in the Biblical Holy Land.....places were Jesus and his disciples were located and the area where it is believed Jesus was crucified.
A knight brought it from Palestine, at least that is the most likely story. That doesn’t mean it is the genuine article tho.
It could easily have been sold to that knight by a con man from Jerusalem.
On the other hand, I read the details of the Oxford carbon test and it was clear they were set to prove it was a fake. I would not trust their results at all.
My guess is that it is a fake or maybe genuine but not related to Christ but some other person who was crucified.
It sure would be interesting if someone could prove it was the real burial shroud of Christ. Not sure that could be done and even if it were many would not believe.
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!