SCIENTIFIC HOAX.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19142, 27 October 1927, Page 9

SCIENTIFIC HOAX.

THE SUPPOSED GLOZEL DISCOVERIES. (BT CABLK-rBESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT.) (Stdkby "Sun" Service.) (Received October 26th, 7.55 p.m.) LONDON, October 25. Tho "Daily . Sketch" says that Hunter Charles Rogers, who had often been exposed in the "Daily Sketch as a dealer in spurious documents and pictures, has asserted that he planted the relics of Glozel. He said: ' TSwh nn Englishman now in America, I weut to Franoe with stones, implements, aud vases, and, seeking a farmer s help, dug them in, the idea being to load a partv of discovery in 1928. "I ran out of money, and the farmer, in order to benefit himself, began discovering things prematurely. Most of them were genuine and others were copies I had made. '•"We bought a lot of genuine prehistoric stuff, had a few genuine stones bearing prehistcfric drawings of reindeer ar.d horses, and made more by scratching stones with glass and old razorblndes.

•"'lt is easy to deceive experts. I am only a Buckinghamshire farm labourer. but I have hoaxed the world in mv time."

[The supposed Glozel tombs were discovered in 1924, and contained 200 objects which it was supposed were associated with prehistoric man, the eeriest being imprints of hands on an inscription tablet in one of the tombs. A French archaeologist stated recently that the discovery was a fraud, and the inscriptions purporting to reveal the world's oldest alphabet were faked. t>iie drawings of animals were quite recent and were possibly done by schoolboys, while the bones of animals wr? ti.e remains of modern cows.]