1844 - Mechanically manufactured gold thread found in sandstone rock, Rutherford-Mills, England. It was embedded in naked rock, at a depth of about 8 feet. 60m yrs. (The Times, June 22 ) (8).

1851 - The June issue of Scientific American (Vol 7, p.298), reports that a 'metallic vase' had been dynamited out of solid rock on Meeting Hill in Dorchester, Massachusetts. The story said, 'on putting the two parts together it formed a bell-shaped vessel, 4 ½ inches high, 6 ½ inches at the base, 2 ½ inches at the top and about an eighth of an inch in thickness". The body of the vessel resembles zinc in colour, or a composition metal in which there is a considerable portion of silver. The vessel is chased, carved and inlayed exquisitely. (9).

1862 - Human bones found by miners in coal seam, (Estimated 286 mill years old)

1872 - Perforated shark teeth, Suffolk, 2-2.5 m yrs. (The Times, April 1872)

1881 - An 'iron nail' from gold bearing quartzite from Kingoodie, Nr Dundee, 387m yrs. (The Times, Dec 1881).

1885 - A small steel cube (2.64 x 2.64 x 1.85 inches), found in coal from an iron foundry in Austria, The cube had perfectly straight and sharp Four of its sides were smooth and flat while the two remaining sides, opposite each other, were convex. A deep groove ran all the way round. Studied at Salzberg museum. Contained Carbon and Nickel (weight 1.73 Lbs, specific gravity of 7.75). The cube disappeared in 1910, and during the bombings of WW2 the museum's inventory file relating to the time period when the cube was on display (1886-1910) were destroyed. Verification relies on the publications; Nature (London, 1886) and L'Astronomie (Paris, 1887). (9).

1891 - Morrisonville, Illinois, USA. An 8 carrot (alloy), gold chain found embedded in coal by Mrs S. W. Culp. As she undertook to take the chain from the coal, the middle of the chain became loosened while each end remained fastened. (estimated at 260-232 million years old). (9).

1899 - Smithsonian institute initiate a survey of anomalous artefacts that 'appear to come from gravels dating 38-55m yrs from 'Table-top mountain'. Finds include: spear heads 6-8'' long, ladles and handles, notched slate object (possibly for a bow), stone grinding tool, human jaw (33-35 m yrs), Mastadon tooth, ¼ '' perforated, white marble bead, stone axe, Andesite stone mortars (nearest 100miles).

1922 - Fossil of a shoe print with stitching, Nevada, 213-248m yrs.

1938 - Human like footprint found by Prof. Wilbur Boroughs in Kentucky, 250m yrs.

1942 - Iron chain still embedded in sandstone, California. Extant photo but object lost.

1961 - The 'Coso Artefact' - (FAKE)

Rock hunters collecting geodes in Olancher, California cut a stone in half to discover a form of mechanical device. Beneath the outer layer of hardened clay, pebbles, and fossil inclusion was a hexagonal layer of an unknown substance softer than agate or jasper. This layer surrounded a three-quarter-inch-wide cylinder made of solid porcelain or ceramic, and in the centre of the cylinder was a 2mm shaft of bright metal. This shaft was magnetic and showed no signs of oxidation. Circling the ceramic cylinder were rings of copper, and these also had not corroded. X-ray photography (right, top), showed that the metallic shaft was corroded at one end, but the other was affixed to a spring or helix of metal. (9).

1968 - Semi-ovoid metallic tubes of identical shape but varying size found in Cretaceous chalk. The chalk-bed was exposed in a quarry at St. Jean de Livet, France, and is estimated to be at least 65 million years old. (1)

1969 - Human footprints in Limestone that runs underwater. When excavated, dinosaur footprints were found in the same strata at site. Paluxy River, Texas.

1983 - Human footprints found in rock by Prof. Amanniyazov in Russia. 150m yrs.

1989 - Polished willow plank from N. Jordan valley. Dated at 500,000 years B.P.

South African spheres - Quote from (1) - 'Over the past several decades, South African miners have found hundreds of metallic spheres, at least one of which has three parallel grooves running around its equator. The spheres are of two types - "one of solid bluish metal with white flecks, and another which is a hollow ball filled with a white spongy centre" (Jimison 1982). The sphere in the photo (right), was found in a Precambrian mineral deposit, said to be 2.8 Billion years old. Some of the spheres can be seen in the Museaum at Klerksdorp, South Africa. (1)

Note - At present, all these artefacts are classified as 'anomalous' or 'fake'.

However...should just one of these discoveries ever be verified by the scientific establishment, then the current theory of a gradual (and single), human development would no longer apply.