Exhibit#4: "The truth will ultimately come out about the Brandenburg Stone"- E Lee Pennington
"My analysis if the d=stone's weathering suggests it could have been carved before 1492, but there is no way to get a more precise date because it was taken out of its original environment, and its provenance isn't clear"- Scott Wolter
Farmer Craig Crecelius claimed to have found the stone in 1912 in Brandenburg, Kentucky, and began displaying it with its ancient mysterious carved writings at county fairs for an admission price, when at some point broke into three pieces.
1965, he transferred ownership of the stone to Jon Whitford, who in 1974 had the oolite limestone examined by professional archaeologists, who concluded that the markings were natural scratches with apparent carved enhancements simulating some type of letters, most likely forged in the 19th century.
Ex- shipbuilding plant foreman Alan Wilson and convicted stolen property dealer Baram Blackett, now "history detectives" declared in 1998 that the Brandenburg Stone scratches were actually ancient Welsh Druid Coelbren, and translated the message:
"To strength divide the land we are spread over purely between offspring"
Wilson & Blackett claimed this was proof that King Arthur and Welsh had sailed across the Atlantic to America to mine copper and other metal ore.
That got the attention of Jefferson County Community College English and creative writing teacher, E Lee Pennington, to go all out with the King Arthur in Kentucky fantasy, utilizing the the St Edmund the Martyr wall painting and other misinformation from the Wilson & Blackett books.
After retiring, Pennington, adding "Doctor" and "PhD" titles to his name from two Honorary Doctor degrees, neither of which in history, one from THE WORLD UNIVERSITY, a school dedicated to the esoteric non-traditional subjects, went on paid lecture tours promoting this false history of King Arthur and the Brandenburg Stone.
*NOTE* Coelbren has been proven to be a fake alphabet, created by Edward Williams using his Druid name Iolo Morganwg in his 18th century book, "BARDDAS".
His son, Taliesin Williams, profiting from the Victorian Period interest in Druidism fantasies, republished his fathers book which was available in the UK and US.
In 1993, The British Academic Community of Historians along other professional disciplines, declared the Coelbren alphabet a fabricated hoax.
As stated by Pennington: "The truth will ultimately come out about the Brandenburg Stone"
