Atlantis and the Biblical Flood by Philip Runggaldier

Author:Philip Runggaldier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2017-01-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

Shirl would continue to visit me each weekend when she was not working or I would go down to Wiltshire to see her and so my weekends were pretty full. We would use the time to see new places. Neither of us had travelled much and we were fortunate that there are so many beautiful villages, parks and estates around Wiltshire and the Cotswolds. We both prefer the outdoors and enjoy long countryside or woodland walks before snuggling up together in the evenings to enjoy a good meal and a glass of wine.

During the weekdays, when Shirl had to return to work, I turned to look at the one tale I had been deliberately avoiding up to now: Plato’s tale of Atlantis. I don’t know quite what possessed me to look at it. I suppose I did it for three reasons. Firstly, I now had evidence of a megadeluge event that occurred around 15,000 to 14,500 years ago; it was close to the time Atlantis was supposedly destroyed. Secondly, my maps of the Celtic Plain were throwing up some unusual patterns. The contour lines at 120m (400ft) below sea level were forming an image that looked like a broken ring system that included a long canal-like feature – two of the key elements described in Plato’s tale. Thirdly, curiosity. I suppose I wanted to make sure I had thoroughly investigated all I needed to before I published my work.

Scientists working on behalf of the British Geological Survey had produced a series of maps covering the ocean bed below the Celtic Sea. I was able to use these to construct a map of how the area looked 15,000 years ago. This is shown in Figure 15.

It can be stated with some confidence that sea levels at this time were around 120m (400ft) below present and this is the divide between the smoother inner Celtic Shelf and the more irregular outer Celtic Shelf.67 I suggest it is likely that the outer shelf was roughened when the last megadeluge impacted the ocean here. Using the 120m (400ft) undersea contour (called a bathymetric line), I was able to reconstruct the coastline of the Celtic Plain 15,000 years ago. It does indeed appear to show a truncated ring system and a canal but also a possible location for Cleito’s Hill (the presumed home of the Shrine to Poseidon and Cleito) and a possible location for the royal residence, the latter being the overall hill formed by the middle granite section of the Haig Fras outcrop.

Today the whole area lies beneath the Atlantic Ocean, but from around 26,000 until around 10,000 years ago it was exposed as dry land because so much water was locked away in the many ice sheets and glaciers throughout the world. At the centre of the Celtic Plain lies a granite outcrop known as Haig Fras. The outcrop comprises three distinct granite masses: a large section to the north, a larger central section, which contains the highest peak (demarked as Cleito’s Hill in Figure 15) in the middle, and a small southern outcrop.

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