In 2000, M. Sue Benford and Joseph G. Marino, working with a number of textile experts, examined documenting photographs of the C14 sample and found evidence of expert reweaving that joined disparate materials almost at the middle of the sample. The consensus was that there was about 60% new material and 40% original material in the sample. If that is the case, and if the repair was made in the early 1500s as history suggests, then according to Ron Hatfield of Beta Analytic, a first century date for the cloth is statistically reasonable.
