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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