[the long march]

I always wonder why it is that all the “educated” folks refuse to believe what the people who witnessed something have to say. I guess some folks are just to smart to understand what their eyes tell them is true.

[MahatmaGandu]

I always wonder why it is that all the “educated” folks refuse to believe what the people who witnessed something have to say. I guess some folks are just to smart to understand what their eyes tell them is true.

Such as the fact that while the 'educated' people prattle on about global warming and the extinction of the polar bears the rest of us have to turn up our heat and carry a .454 Casull just in case one of those over-populated polar bears gets hungry for something other than a seal.

[muawiyah]

When you see mindnumbingly large stone fences just meandering through the countryside without apparant purpose anywhere in the world you know they were built by slaves.

Their masters were concerned the slaves didn't have enough to do and were probably plotting an uprising.

Quite likely the newly arriving Caribe Indians in the South (back in the 9th and 10th centuries) put their Northe American captives to work moving rock and raising corn.

[ZULU]

Well, I wonder why it is that “educated” folk can't seem to believe indigenous peoples in other parts of the world are incapable of building structures all by themselves without injecting Welshmen, Space Aliens and other impossible agents.

I can just imagine some Cherokee Indian telling the first White Settlers these were built by Welshmen. They probably never even heard of a Welshman.

People should check out the Mound- Builders to see what native Americans were perfectly capable of constructing all by themselves or the Anasazi cliff dwellings.

[FreeAtlanta]

Also, why they think something like this wasn’t built for defense, but for some religious ceremony or something. We put fenses around our properties today for defense or setting boundries to keep our kids and pets in. Why are these “acedemics” such goofs?

[WoofDog123]

i would wonder what legends actually say now. did the white welsh folks describe themselves as being from cymraeg (was this name used in the 12th century already in old welsh?), or some other gaelic-derived place? any place-names? was the Madoc name actually used Lack of any written records makes it hard to know what filtered in from spanish and others later on in the colonial period. What is the earliest recorded spanish or english transcription of the legend?

does enough remain at the site to make any comparison to contemporary stone-work in wales at this time? there are a many structures in wales older than the date given here which have extant parts from before this period intact still.

ANY actual finds on -site of demonstrably british origin pre-16th century?

at any rate, these are the first things that come to mind.