Originally identified as a Spanish Catholic cross, a 150+ year old artifact found by a family on a slope of the Colorado's Grand Mesa in the 1960s turns out to be a Masonic Knights Templar sword's sheath.

Here's the skinny on the find:

• At first, the artifact itself had been lost after being handed off to the Museum of Western Colorado but it was relocated this summer. Check out the detailed photo just over halfway down the article and if you know Masonic symbolism, you'll recognize the engravings immediately.
  
  
• Then, when the news of finding the lost artifact was published in the newspaper, a reader recognized it as similar to his grandfather's ceremonial Masonic sword.
  
  
• The Denver Post published a highly uninformed article about the Masonic connection to the artifact.

Interestingly, the "experts" are having a problem digesting how the Masonic sheath could have found it's way to the pre-1860s white settlement of the Grand Mesa area.

The obvious question becomes, could this artifact have been dropped at a much earlier date, oh say by Pre-Columbus renegade Templars from Europe?

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