Aaron Shafovaloff And Rodney Meldrum

[kolipoki09]

Kolipoki, for the sake of accuracy, that last site is not John Dehlin's site. It's an anti-Mormon site that has co-opted the name of John's site.

This is John Dehlin's site:

D'oh! I knew that! I typed in the wrong URL when I linked it. My apologies.

[Libs]

A very easy mistake to make!

[alter idem]

Here is an interesting entry from Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology on the Bat Creek Stone

http://books.google.com/books?id=RlRz2symkAsC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=General+History+Cyclopedia,+and+Dictionary+of+Freemasonry+bat+creek&source=bl&ots=N_VR29VdoN&sig=0RLeoPr_rU1dMJMGF5qe7D_RMlw&hl=en&ei=IMUGTqOTIITGsAOci5XDDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

They note that:

"Metallurgical analysis of the bracelets (the proportion of copper to zinc) shows similarity to brass objects made anytime between the last few centuries BCE right up until the nineteenth century CE, so that proves nothing at all. Bracelets made in ancient Rome have proportions similar to those discovered in Mound 3 at Bat Creek, but brass bracelets made in England in the nineteenth century have exactly the same copper-zinc proportions."

Thanks for answering this--that was a question I had. IMO, this means the bracelets don't offer proof of authenticity or proof of fraud either.