A Gold Chain from Ages Past

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Here is something from the appendix of Forbidden Archaeology about the age

of intelligent civilization.

 

Posted by Dharmapada/Dean

 

 

A2.9- GOLD CHAIN IN CARBONIFEROUS COAL

FROM MORRISONVILLE, ILLINOIS

 

On June 11, 1891, The Morrisonville Times reported: "A curious find was

brought to light by Mrs. S. W. Culp last Tuesday morning. As she was

breaking a lump of coal preparatory to putting it in the scuttle, she

discovered, as the lump fell apart, embedded in a circular shape a small

gold chain about ten inches in length of antique and quaint workmanship. At

first Mrs. Culp thought the chain had been dropped accidentally in the coal,

but as she undertook to lift the chain up, the idea of its having been

recently dropped was at once made fallacious, for as the lump of coal broke

it separated almost in the middle, and the circular position of the chain

placed the two ends near to each other, and as the lump separated, the

middle of the chain became loosened while each end remained fastened to the

coal. This is a study for the students of archaeology who love to puzzle

their brains over the geological construction of the earth from whose

ancient depth the curious is always dropping out. The lump of coal from

which this chain was taken is supposed to come from the Taylorville or Pana

mines [southern Illinois] and almost hushes one's breath with mystery when

it is thought for how many long ages the earth has been forming strata after

strata which hid the golden links from view. The chain was an eight-carat

gold and weighed eight penny-weights."

 

In a letter to Ron Calais, Mrs. Vernon W. Lauer, the present publisher of

the Morrisonville Times, stated: "Mr. Culp was editor and publisher of the

Times in 1891. Mrs. Culp, who made the discovery, moved to Taylorville after

his death-remarried and her death occurred on February 3, 1959." Calais told

our research assistant (Stephen Bernath) that he had information the chain

was given to one of Mrs. Culp's relatives after her death, but Calais could

not trace the chain further.

 

The Illinois Geological Survey has said the coal in which the gold chain

was found is 260 - 320 million years old. This raises the possibility that

culturally advanced human beings werepresent in North America during that

time.