Some of the oldest known rock formations, formed over, include banded iron layers.

Like the oldest in Ohio County, it is a Greek Revival building with two stories and a Doric portico supported by fluted columns ; it has ornamental iron stairs and a clock tower.

The Zion Lutheran Church on Route 724 holds the distinction of being the second oldest Lutheran Church in the United States ; and the Rapps Dam Covered Bridge and the Silver Bridge iron bridge on Hares Hill Road both have historic significance.

Röda Jorden ( The Red Soil ) is Sweden ’ s to date oldest iron preparation site, active between 700 BC to 200 AD.

Dunlap's Creek Bridge ( 1839 ), carrying old U. S. Route 40 over Dunlap's Creek in Brownsville, is the nation's oldest cast iron bridge in existence.

The Flatiron Building ( c. 1830 ), constructed as a business building in thriving 19th-century Brownsville, is one of the oldest, most intact iron commercial structures west of the Allegheny Mountains.

The oldest iron pleasure pier still remaining is in Southport, England, and dates from 1860-however the world's oldest iron pier dates from 1834 and is in Gravesend, Kent.

The oldest cast iron pier in the world is Gravesend Town Pier, in Kent, which opened in 1834.

The Pier is the world's oldest surviving cast iron pier, built in 1834

In China, the oldest existing arch bridge is the Zhaozhou Bridge of 605 AD, which combined a very low span-to-rise ratio of 5. 2: 1, with the use of spandrel arches ( buttressed with iron brackets ).

* Wanne Observation Tower, one of the oldest towers built of iron

* Iron Head ( Wong Yut Fei ): The oldest of the six Shaolin brothers, " Iron Head " spent much effort gaining the kung fu style that makes his head as tough as iron, which helps a lot against beer bottle abuses from his violent boss.

For many years it was also erroneously thought to be one of the bandstands first erected in 1861 in the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens in South Kensington, which would have made it the oldest surviving cast iron bandstand in Europe.

Put into operation in 1645, it is considered to be the oldest iron blast furnace in the United States, although it operated for only two years.

* A little bridge in the park, which is the oldest existing bridge made of cast iron in the former Kingdom of Poland

The Esplanade Mansion, India's oldest surviving cast iron building.

A possible oldest example of Man ' yōgana is the iron Inariyama Sword that was excavated at the Inariyama Kofun in 1968.

The oldest iron objects found have been needles, but edged tools, swords and sickles, are found as well.

The Flax Mill ( also locally known as the " Maltings ") there is the oldest iron framed building in the world and is seen as the " grandfather of skyscrapers ".

O ' Reilly's Bridge was a single-lane iron truss bridge, the only of its kind on the entire river, and one of the oldest iron truss bridges in Southern Ontario.

The two oldest printed Chinese calendars are dated 877 and 882 ; they were found at the Buddhist pilgrimage site of Dunhuang ; Patricia Ebrey writes that it is no surprise that some of the earliest printed items were calendars, since the Chinese found it necessary to calculate and mark which days were auspicious and which were not.

The oldest confirmed written mention of dominoes in China comes from the Former Events in Wulin ( i. e. the capital Hangzhou ) written by the Yuan Dynasty ( 1271 – 1368 ) author Zhou Mi ( 1232 – 1298 ), who listed " pupai " ( gambling plaques or dominoes ) as well as dice as items sold by peddlers during the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of Song ( r. 1162 – 1189 ).

With some exceptions, such as medical alert bracelets or military dog tags, jewellery normally differs from other items of personal adornment in that it has no other purpose than to look appealing, but humans have been producing and wearing it for a long time – with 100, 000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery.

The original meaning of the adjective profane ( from Latin pro fano, " in front of " or " before, outside " the fanum, a sanctuary ) referred to items not belonging to the church, e. g., " The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest building ," or " besides designing churches, he also designed many profane buildings ".

One of the oldest ideas is that new items simply replace older ones in working memory.

The oldest habitation discovered in the Philippines is located at the Tabon Caves and dates back to approximately 50, 000 years ; while items there found such as burial jars, earthenware, jade ornaments and other jewelry, stone tools, animal bones, and human fossils dating back to 47, 000 years ago.

FIFO stands for first-in, first-out, meaning that the oldest inventory items are recorded as sold first but do not necessarily mean that the exact oldest physical object has been tracked and sold.

Notably, a metre high bronze head of Buddha dated to the c750 AD and one of the oldest items a 2, 000 year old jade horse head from a burial, other sculptures include life size tomb guardians.

Some of the oldest items in the collection are medieval vestments, especially Opus Anglicanum.

The oldest items date back to 1842 when the TU Delft ( then Delft Royal Academy ) was established.

The Science Museum now holds a collection of over 300, 000 items, including such famous items as Stephenson's Rocket, Puffing Billy ( the oldest surviving steam locomotive ), the first jet engine, a reconstruction of Francis Crick and James Watson's model of DNA, some of the earliest remaining steam engines, a working example of Charles Babbage's Difference engine ( and the latter, preserved half brain ), the first prototype of the 10, 000-year Clock of the Long Now, and documentation of the first typewriter.

They tend to retrieve the oldest items first, and memorise their location rather than searching randomly or checking systematically.

Noteworthy items in this collection include a carved ndop figure of a Kuba king, believed to be among the oldest extant ndop carvings, and a Lulua mother-and-child figure.

The oldest evidence of humans in the Grossaffoltern area are neolithic objects at Vorimholz, an Early Bronze Age ax blade depot at Munimatte and Bronze Age items at Kosthofen.

The library manuscript collections contain some 15, 000 items, the oldest vellum manuscripts dating from around 1100 and are among the earliest examples of written Icelandic.

The oldest inventory items are the wooden baptismal font and a painted chandelier also made of wood, both from the 18th century.

Xiao Tong therefore allowed the monk to bury a few items intended to dissolve the ill fortune, such as wax ducks, at the position reserved for the oldest son.

Among the more famous items in its collection are the oldest biblical illustrations, in the 5th century Quedlinburg Itala fragment, a Gutenberg Bible, the main autograph collection of Goethe, the world's largest collection of Johann Sebastian Bach's and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's manuscripts, and the original score of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.

Mills are some of the oldest factories in human history, so factories making other items are sometimes known as mills, for example, cotton mills and steel mills.

A number of items were found, including ceramics, wooden structural elements and the remains of wooden walkways, seeds, bones, figurines, personal ornaments, flutes — one, dated to the sixth millennium BC, is the oldest ever found in Europe, and one of the most significant findings, the inscribed tablet.

The 23 oldest and most valuable items in his Bible collection were auctioned by Bonhams & Butterfields on October 17, 2006.