MDDM Did the Welsh discover America?

[Doug Millison]

http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Culture&F=1&id=5889

Did the Welsh discover America?

26/8/2002


A team of historians and researchers announced today
that Radio Carbon dating evidence, and the discovery
of ancient British style artefacts and inscriptions in
the American Midwest, provide the strongest
indications yet" that British explorers, under the
Prince Madoc ap Meurig, arrived in the country during
the 6th Century and set up colonies there. 

Research team members have known the location of
burial sites of Madoc's close relatives in Wales for
some time, it emerged today; but they have decided to
break their self-imposed silence in order that their
research be fully known and understood. DNA evidence
could provide vital new leads, they say. 

"We have a mass of remarkable evidence," said British
historian Alan Wilson, who has been working with Jim
Michael of the Ancient Kentucke Historical Association
since 1989. "As experts in ancient British history, we
were approached by Jim and visited locations in the
Mid West with him," he added. 

Many of the grave mounds found in the American mid
West, including those at Bat Creek, Tennessee, are
ancient British in origin and design, Wilson said. Jim
Michael added, "the stone tablet found at Bat Creek in
1889 included an inscription written in Coelbren, an
ancient British alphabet known and recorded by
historians and bards down the ages." 

Wilson said that his research had brought him into
contact with very similar alphabet inscriptions in
Britain, Europe and the Middle East. "The components
of the alphabet derive from the earliest days of the
Khumric (Welsh) people," he added, "and were used
along their migration routes to Wales in antiquity." 

Wilson's research partner, Baram A. Blackett, said,
"once we discovered the cipher for the alphabet in
recorded in texts dating to the 1500s we knew we were
in business. We have translated many of these
inscriptions and they all make perfect sense." Jim
Michael commented that the final translation for the
Bat Creek tablet was an exciting task, "especially
when we knew it read, 'Madoc the ruler he is'." 

Some historians have written off the evidence for
Prince Madoc, the Welsh Prince who sailed to America
circa 562 (AD). "They often give a false date of 1170
and this legend has replaced the facts," added Wilson.
"At the moment, there is a small group of wreckers
trying to steal our research and to promote this
misdating. Luckily, we've done all the groundwork and
have a substantial body of evidence in our favour." 

"In Britain and America the academics have been slow
to respond," said Jim Michael. "There is a theory that
there was no European settlement here before Columbus,
despite the evidence, but this is for political and
theoretical reasons." In the UK, public bodies had,
"failed to engage with this vital research effort,"
added Alan Wilson. "I think they're afraid that an
independent group such as ours has made such progress.
They prefer to ignore and neglect ancient British
history rather than to deal with it. The Welsh people
have suffered, and the opportunity to boost the
economy, to bring thousands of jobs to Glamorgan and
Gwent, where Madoc and his brother Arthur ll ruled,
has not been exploited." 

Public bodies in the US and UK must now start to
actively pursue this new evidence, they say. 

DNA profiling could help identify the human remains
found at Bat Creek. "It could well be Madoc himself,"
said Blackett. "After all, the inscription was found
right next to the bones, which are currently housed at
the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC." 

Wilson, Blackett and their research team know the
location of Madoc's close relatives and have made
significant archaeological finds at sites nearby. "So
we can use Welsh DNA evidence from the graves here,
and compare it with the bone fragments in the
Smithsonian," he said. "This would be of massive
historical value." It is estimated that up to 20,000
jobs and hundreds of millions in tourism could be an
immediate benefit in South Wales, claimed the men. 

"In the American Mid West the results could be very
similar," added Jim Michael. 

Background 

Wilson, Blackett, and Jim Michael made the
identification of the Bat Creek main tumulus as the
likely tomb of Prince Madoc, in January 1990. Michael
has been in contact with the Smithsonian with a view
to its allowing the bone fragments to be DNA tested. 

There are numerous ancient British Coelbren
inscriptions in the American mid West. 

Skulls found in some US grave mounds are of
European-Caucasian origin; they do not include an Inca
bone. 

There was only one Prince Madoc. He was the brother of
King Arthur ll and lived during the 6th Century. This
is not in doubt. Ancient British manuscripts and
genealogies tell us this. 

Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett have been investigating
the true history of King Arthur and the Khumric-Welsh
dynasty for a total of nearly 70 years. Wilson’s
interest began in 1956 and Blackett joined him in
1976, when the Arthurian Research Foundation of Great
Britain was started. 

They have written the best-selling The Holy Kingdom
(Bantam, 1999) with Adrian Gilbert and self-published
underground classics including Arthur, King of
Glamorgan and Gwent, Artorius Rex Discovered, Arthur
and the Charters of the Kings and Arthur, The War King
(a historical novel). 

The men have lectured extensively in the UK, including
Manchester and Jesus Colleges at Oxford University,
and Alan Wilson gave the prestigious Bemis Lecture in
Boston in 1993. Wilson and Blackett were also
commissioned to produce a detailed genealogy of the
Bush family by former President George Bush (senior).



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