Hahn found the hammer bearing nodule "near" these surrounding rocks, lying loose not in situ. One report states that the hammer was embedded in a rock formation dating from the Cretaceaus Period (65-135 million years ago, whilst others stating from Ordovician strata. And there is no photographic evidence of the object prior to being disturbed. First of all, there are conflicting reports as to where the object was actually located in the surrounding rocks. "Texas Tracks and Artifacts: Do Texas Fossils Indicate Coexistence of Men and Dinosaurs?". ^ Helfinstine, Robert F Roth, Jerry D.The hammer in question was probably dropped or discarded by a local miner or craftsman within the last few hundred years, after which dissolved limy sediment hardened into a nodule around it. Other relatively recent implements have been found encased in by similar nodules and can form within centuries or even decades under proper conditions (Stromberg, 2004). However, the hammer was not documented in situ and has not been reliably associated with any specific host formation.
They maintain that the hammer, which was partially embedded in a small, limy rock concretion, originated in a Cretaceous rock formation (or an Ordovician or Silurian one, depending on the account), thus contradicting the standard geologic timetable. An iron and wooden hammer, sometimes called the "London Artifact" or "London Hammer," found by local hikers in a creek bed near London, Texas in 1936, has been promoted by Carl Baugh and other strict creationists as an out-of-place artifact. "The London Hammer: An Alleged Out-of-Place Artifact". One of his principal pieces of evidence for human contemporaneity with supposedly ancient geological strata is an iron hammer with a wooden handle found near London, Texas by others in the 1930s in an "Ordovician" stone concretion."(Baugh, 1983b).
National Center for Science Education Inc. One possible explanation for the rock containing the artifact is that the highly soluble minerals in the ancient limestone may have formed a concretion around the object, via a common process (like that of a petrifying well) which often creates similar encrustations around fossils and other nuclei in a relatively short time. Its design is consistent with a miner's hammer. Other observers have noted that the hammer is stylistically consistent with typical American tools manufactured in the region in the late 19th century. Baugh's Creation Evidence Museum purchased the hammer around 1983 and began to promote it as ‘the London Artifact’. The Hammer began to attract wider attention after it was bought by creationist Carl Baugh in 1983, who claimed the artifact was a "monumental 'pre-Flood' discovery." He has used it as the basis of speculation of how the atmospheric quality of a pre- flood earth could have encouraged the growth of giants. The metal of the hammerhead consists of 96.6% iron, 2.6% chlorine, and 0.74% sulfur. The metal hammerhead is approximately 6 inches (15 centimeters) long and has a diameter of 1 in (25 mm), leading some to suggest that this hammer was not used for large projects, but rather for fine work or soft metal. A decade later, their son Max broke open the rock to find the concealed hammerhead within. They spotted a curious piece of loose rock with a bit of wood embedded in it and took it home with them.
The hammer was purportedly found by a local couple, Max Hahn and a female friend, while out walking along the course of the Red Creek near the town of London. Part of the hammer is embedded in a limey rock concretion, leading to it being regarded by some as an anomalous artifact, asking how a man-made tool could come to be encased in Lower Cretaceous rock. The London Hammer (also known as the "London Artifact") is a name given to a hammer made of iron and wood that was found in London, Texas in 1936.
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