This curious artifact was discovered in the city of London, Texas, USA, in 1934. The hammer appeared embedded inside a rock and since its discovery, there have been many theories about its origin, and most importantly its incredible age. So how did the hammer end up embedded inside the rock?
According to studies of the Metallurgical Institute of Columbia the inside handle underwent the process of carbonization, the head of the hammer was built with an iron purity only achievable with modern-day technology.
For the hammer to finish inside the rock, it had to have been built before the rock was formed. According to analysis, the rock encasing of the hammer was dated to the Ordovician era, more than 400 million years ago.
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Samuel Long
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Parker Barnes
What kind of rock is that?
I'm not a geologist, I don't know minerals.
Luis Martinez
Has there been an attempt to date the wood?
Owen King
Older than most things you know
William Morgan
Not that I know. But the wood itself started to turn to coal.
Andrew Cruz
>The hammer appeared embedded inside a rock
That is very accurately stated.
Dylan Wood
Meanwhile in reality:
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Elijah Watson
Cool. Still avoiding thread topic.
Grayson Jones
No, your underlaying premise is wrong. It formed completely naturally in a petrifying well.
John Reyes
It is a miners hammer, so whenever it was made presumably was used underground, for mining. It matches the style of miner's hammer made in the 19th century.
A hammer dropped into water with a lot of dissolved calcium would be encased in mineral concretions fairly quickly. Although it is often stated that it was found in strata of ancient date, with a huge range of variation in what age is claimed, nobody has ever put forth evidence of this.
By way of an interesting comparison, here is an X-ray of a concretion that formed around a small grouping of artifacts, found off the shore of NC in an area fraught with shipwrecks from the golden age of sail...