assyrianpride, on 22 January 2013 - 08:23 AM, said:
how would anyone know that its 300 million years old? we all know that carbon dating is flawed because it has dated 50 year old objects as several million years old. although i do believe in ufos and extraterrestrial life, i think a lot of times people are just looking way too hard
Age, in this case, would be determined (probably) by the context in which it was found. Finding it in a Carboniferous seam of coal would place it between 360 - 286 Million years old.
I think this is some kind of hoax, or has not been investigated with any rigour... saying that, there are lots of interesting OOPArts in the world (Out Of Place Artefacts) which are sometimes difficult to fully explain.