A Strange Iron Pole. Otherwise known at The Iron Man, this oddity is a puzzling minimalist addition to the European landscape. The Iron Man is located in the German national forest of Naturpark Kottenforst-Ville, and is, well, an iron bar. A roughly square metal bar with about 1.47 meters above ground and approximately 2.7 meters below ground. The curious thing is that the iron bar has utterly no context. There is no nearby foundation of a building, nor any other archaeological evidence surrounding it to hint of its origin. The Iron Man was first mentioned in a 17th century document, and even then was considered mysterious and of unknown origin. It is considered by many to be an out-of- place artifact, something that cannot adequately be explained. Of course, other out-of-place artifacts include the Antikythera mechanism, which is a mechanical computer designed between 150 – 100 BCE that blew the lid off of what archaeologists thought Ancient Greeks were capable of…and this is just an iron pole. But that doesn’t take away from its mystery. The Iron Man shows remarkably little sign of rust and is still used as a village boundary marker.
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 15:56:17 +0000
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