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A London Artifact was discovered in June, 1934 by Frank and Emma Hahn near London, Texas. This artifact is a metal hammer in Cretaceous rock. The hammer is composed of 96.6% iron, 0.74% sulfur, and 2.6% chlorine. This chlorine composition in compound with metallic iron renders this artifact unreproducible by modern scientific methods.


Hieroglyphic writing at Naj Tunich cave records ancient pilgrimages of important persons.
Source: National Park Service

In the museum at Moses Lake, Washington are crude scrapers on exhibit which were found under a glacier. Scientists are disturbed about this find because it would date man to before the Pleistocene epoch.

In a foundry in 1885 in Austria, a piece of coal was shattered. A small iron cube with rounded edges and a deep incision around it fell out. The owner's son gave it to the Linz Museum of Austria, where it was lost. The museum still has a cast of the cube.

Here is a strange find indeed. At a depth of 300 feet a mortar for grinding gold ore was found. It was in a mine shaft. A pestle was also found. Both pestle and mortar weighed in at 30 pounds. There was also a granite dish found at the site, it weighed 40 pounds. Both beads and perforated stones were also found in the mine.

Another strange object found in a large lump of coal was an iron pot. In 1912 in a coal mine in Wiburton, Oklahoma, an iron pot fell out of a smashed lump of coal. It was found by two employees of the Municipal Electric Plant in Thomas, Oklahoma. Both employees signed affidavits attesting to the truth of this story. Although the pot was photographed, it was lost.

Ivory figure discovered in Alaska
Source: National Park Service

In a Cretaceous layer of earth near the Paluxy River, near the town of Glen Rose in Texan a fossilized finger was found. A cat scan revealed bone, tissue and ligaments. The finger was identified as the fourth finger of a girl's left hand.

A human skull was found under five beds of lava at a depth of 130 feet.

A nail was found in a sandstone block from the Mesozoic Era by David Brewster. Another nail was found in a stone block from Kingoodie Quarry in Scotland, ion 1895.

Why are scientists upset at the following find? Choppers and scrappers were found very deep in the earth. The reason that scientists are upset is that if this find is genuine, it upsets the time frame for the beginning of human life. The find was near Sudbury in Ontario, Canada

In 1851 Scientific American reported that a shaped metal vessel with inlaid floral designs in silver was found while workmen were blasting near Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Workers working hundreds of feet underground found worked stones weighing up to 800 pounds. Originally this site was an ancient river bed which dated long before the last ice age. The story was reported in a California newspaper.

In 1572 Spanish soldiers found a six inch long nail in rock in a Peruvian mine, the indians had no knowledge of iron. The Spanish Viceroy kept the nail as a souvenir and recorded the find by letter, where it is listed in the Madrid Archives.

In 1842, a human skull was found in brown coal. This item is now in the collection of the Freiberg Mining Academy, Germany

In 1851 Hiram de Witt found a piece of gold-bearing quartz in California. He dropped it and a nail fell out.

Pictograph from Panther Cave, Amistad National Recreation Area
Source: National Park Service

The Meister Print was discovered in Cambrian slate in 1968 by the late William Meister near Antelope Springs, Utah. The artifact includes a positive and negative impression of a human sandal print with some of the stitching showing along the edges. In the heel and toe areas two trilobites are crushed. This suggests human habitation long before it was ever suspected.

A piece of coal of a mine in Scotland contained an instrument thought to be modern, yet there was no way it could have been encased in coal. Date of the discovery is unknown.

 


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