tcubed: tantalizing text from tintagel
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Legends versus facts of ancient fortresses in the Ohio valley. What evidence supports "Who, what, when, where, why, how, how long, how much, how many" regarding legends and official records describing ancient fortresses and other features in the Ohio Valley. Long held traditions by both natives and settlers describe stone fortresses and an unbroken series of rapid communications along all the major waterways of eastern North America. Author, Rick Osmon, investigated these legends, traditions, and out of place artifacts over a period of more than four decades and presents some of the data and conclusions here.TRANSCRIPT
Tantalizing TintagelText
For the
Midwestern Epigraphic SocietySpring Symposium
2013
Airport MarriottColumbus, Ohio
By
Rick Osmon
Warning: This presentation may be hazardous to some dogmatic belief systems
A “line” of 10 or 12 regularly spaced ancient fortresses once crossed what is now
Indiana
Premise:
Quarried wall at Devil's Backbone
Quarry14 Mile Island
Devils BackboneDevils Backbone
Merom Bluff Fort Aztalan
Merom Bluff Fort Aztalan
10 or 12 Forts Premise Plausible?
There's at least enough evidence to
continue asking questions?
Next Premise:
LegendOf
Prince Madoc
Allegedly colonized America in 1170
Photo of the diorama that used to be at the Falls of the Ohio
Museum
Brandenburg Stone
Roman coins found in rock shelter in Breathitt Co, KY
Map courtesy Lee Pennington
More data needed
Up to 15 ft high, 60 ft long, at least 14 ft thick at base, stones fairly uniform at 22” wide, but varying thickness and length
This ca 300YO Beech Tree'sRoots grew
into a pre-existing
Erosion ofthe Wall
I call it East Fork Site 1.
Where does this site fall relative to other known
sites?
Intermediate Conclusion:
Line of Fortresses is Plausible, Partially Confirmed – That's the
“Where” & “What” of“Who, What, Where, When, and
Why”
(and How, How Much, How Often, How Long, How Many, etc)
In 2008, the late Jim Michaels advised me to look into the
work of Alan Wilson
Muralat
Stoke Dry
Church,Circa 1000
Welsh Slab-Sided Grave
Mississippian Stone Box Grave
Then, Lee Pennington said, “Hey, let's go to Welsh Caves”
Welsh Cavesat edge of
De Soto State Park
Satellite View of BluffWelsh Caves
Satellite View of BluffWelsh Caves
Welsh CavesFrom Opposite
Side ofCanyon
WEST
1863 Graffiti at Welsh Caves
Who was Arthur?
Before He was King, Arthur was the
Bastard Child of a King
4th & 5th century Roman
ceramics found at Tintagel,
allusions to tin trade
According to legend, Arthur was conceived at Castle Tintagel
Elite, late Roman trade ceramics
indicate that the residents of
Tintagel up to 530's were very well to do. By
580's was virtually abandoned. Later rebuilt by Norman
invaders
One particularly interesting artifact was recovered at Tintagel
during a 1963 dig
Tintagel, Cornwall
Alabama Cornwall
Again, premise holds together well enough
to continue asking more questions
How could even 10,000 starving Welsh refugees
build a string of stone fortresses in two years while under constant harassment
by natives?
Maybe the fortresses were already there(?)
But if so, who built them?
Somebody before 570 CE, maybe native, maybe not
Mexican Find:
Head from late 1st or early 2nd century Roman figurine. Excavated from under the floor of an early 15th century Aztec house
Photo Credit: Romero Hristov
Billy Mays Impression
A reputed transcript of reformed Egyptian characters, which Joseph Smith said were copied from the golden plates in 1828. The characters are not linked to any known language.
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