Assumptions baked into the VMS carbon dating

[eggyk]

But, I'm quite sure the C14 experts together with the historical experts at the Beinecke (and elsewhere) fully considered exactly the points above along with other points mentioned in this thread. And people trying to challenge their conclusions really need to examine carefully the range of information and reasoning that went into those conclusions - there's a lot more to it than a table of historical dating estimates (plus a bit of science that most of us don't understand).

Unless the justification for their underpinning assumption that the seperate folios can be considered a single object is explained in more detail within their report - which we do not have access to - I already directly quoted their entire reasoning, which was effectively "one can argue that this is the case". Which, by the way, implies that one can argue it isn't the case. 

And again, i'm not disputing the individual results for the samples or their processes. I don't know how I could have made this clearer. I wrote an entire intro dedicated to clarifying that I have no issue with how carbon dating is carried out.