[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

This is how Swordmaster explained the burial in Palestine in antiquity.

Wow! I wasn't aware of that. Thanks.

The image below depicts the burial process that I was familiar with:

If this was the case, the Shroud would have had to have been suspended in mid-air, but Swordmaster's explanation seems more plausible, and in conformity with Jewish custom.

[21twelve]

See my post 37 about a possible theory on suspending in midair.