The fibres were from the Oak Island Museum just off the Island.
I was offered a small quantity about 10 years ago and wish I had taken them up on it.
There were other datings and other identifications that have similar results and one done recently by the Lagina's with the same results...
Loki, since you base your Templars on Oak Island premise and theory on these coconut coir samples, have you verified their chain of custody provenance BRFORE they were submitted for date testing?
As with the Wood's Hole sample, it was given to them by a Triton employee, a group with a vested interest a Oak Island treasure dig, and quite possible that sample came from another location, not Oak Island.
Chain of custody provenance that would confirm the legitimacy of the these coir samples:
1. Who discovered and recovered these samples and his credentials.
2. Exact location and in situ photos of the coir.
3. Soil samples with embedded coir for comparison dating analysis.
4. Singed verification that the samples presented for dating tests were indeed from this Oak Island site.
5. Who presented these samples to the labs date testing and their relationship to the museum or treasure hunting operations.
Even with this chain of custody provenance, these coir samples do not establish proof of a Templar visitation to Oak Island/ Nova Scotia to bury alleged imaginative treasure, Loki, beyond one's wishful speculation of scattered evidence stacked in support of purely unfounded unproven conclusions.