Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

6 - Rarities, Curiosities And Speculations
Fig. 68. The Iron Man at Kottenforst near Bonn is embedded 90 ft. in the ground. There
is a similar iron column at Delhi In spite of their age, neither of them has rusted!
So far no one knows what to make of the long rectangular column, and people know a
lot about iron in this part of the world. Why should not metallurgists spare the time to
travel to that developing country India to check whether or not the iron column in the
temple courtyard at Delhi has a similar alloy to the strong column at Kottenforst? Such
factual knowledge might produce evidence as to the age of both columns, for I think it is
absurd to accept the Iron Man as being no more than a village boundary mark. If it were,
why should it stick 90 feet into the ground? Central Europe, too, may have been one goal
of "visits by the gods" and then the Iron Man's real significance would emerge.
There used to be a rarity in Salzburg, too. Johannes Von Butlar says:
"Who knows how to solve the mystery of Dr. Gurlt's dice? It was the strangest object
ever discovered in a block of coal from the Tertiary, where it was enclosed for many
millions of years. This almost perfect dice was found in 1885. There was a deep incision
round its middle and two parallel outer surfaces were rounded off. It consisted of a hard
alloy of coal and nickel steel and weighed 785 grains. Its sulphur content was too low for
it to have come from natural gravel, which occasionally occurs in remarkable
geometrical shapes. Scientists were never able to agree about the dice's origin. It was
preserved in the Salzburg Museum until 1910 and then disappeared mysteriously.
Mystery piled on mystery!"
If the dice came from the Tertiary, I can only ask: did monkeys know a process for
making steel?