Confirmation in England, Scotland and Wales
The foregoing research has resulted in the discovery of prehistoric astronomical aberrations, which generated widespread climate change and strange weather patterns, but in pursuit of its investigations it has not needed to venture beyond Wessex in southern England and Newgrange in the Republic of Ireland. The incongruity is obvious and there needs potentially to be supportive evidence elsewhere in the British Isles if its assertions are to command credibility.
Fortunately this is to be found in the form of a succession of deluges in Scotland, apparently similar to those manifested at Silbury Hill, and in stone rings there and in Wales and England whose shapes are consistent with the asserted movements of Earth’s axis of spin (EAS).
Fig. E1: Features at the confluence of the River Earn and Machaney Water
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Fig. E2: Asserted aim design of the flood refuge
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Fig. E3: Directions of currents in relation to the flood refuge
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Fig. E4: Sections of the flood refuge: first and second floods
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Fig. E5: Sections of the flood refuge: third flood
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Fig. E6: Section of the flood refuge: final form
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Fig. E7: Schematic section through the confluence and the refuge
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Instantaneous Deluges
In section 13 and Figures 31, 32, and 33 it is asserted five catastrophic instantaneous deluges of mounting severity, with an anticipated sixth which did not materialise, account for the progressive raising of Silbury Hill. Section 21 with Fig 70 and section 22, explain how the EAS experienced five snatches as it moved from the geographic pole to the vicinity of St Petersburg, Russia, where it dwelled before returning. Section 22 also explains how the snatches generated the deluges.
However, the deduced fierce incoming Atlantic weather could not have been confined to the region of Wessex indeed, our experience today is of the British Isles receiving the North Atlantic weather system stretching from north of the Shetland Isles down to the Isles of Scilly and beyond. As a consequence, in our country’s rich archaeological heritage one would hope to find evidence of intermittent deluges elsewhere. It is to be found at North Mains, Perthshire, Scotland: Ordnance Survey sheet 58 (and sheet 57), Landranger Series, grid reference NN 9216.
The following interpretation is a severely abridged version of a detailed analysis of the site in MOS pt II p147-237 (see the section Notes and References). This in turn is based on the report by Gordon Barclay of the Scottish Development Department concerning his excavation of the site in 1978/9. It is to be found in volume 13 of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
A large mound, or cairn, was constructed at the confluence of the River Earn, fed from Loch Earn above it to west, and Machaney Water rising on the flanks of Ben Clach, again to west, Fig E1. It was raised over two earlier monuments lost to view and was one of a number in the immediate vicinity. It would appear the reason for their location was the intersection of two straight ways 250m (273 yards) distant, while all were on a rare small area of flat land bounded on three sides by water flowing eastwards. While being classified as a barrow, the mound’s function was that of a flood refuge. Its planned design was as Fig E2.
The old land surface (OLS) on which it sits coincides with the 30m contour and it therefore provides a convenient reference datum for heights. Above this the refuge apparently suffered three inundations by fast flowing streams Fig E3. The surface water of the first flood washed away much of the feathered edge of the mound. The second damaged the flank of the refuge at 2.3m (7.5 ft) above datum and this was repaired, Fig E4. The third rose to 3.7m (12ft) above datum Fig E5. The damage from this was not only repaired but the whole refuge was strengthened with a layer of turf covered with stones, raising its height to 5m (13ft) above datum. There is no evidence of damage by flood surface water thereafter, Fig E6.
These three inundations and their repairs are seen to be the final ones followed by strengthening work and a consequent slight increase in height. They are thought to be equivalents of the third, fourth and fifth raisings of the mound, followed by the unnecessary reinforced final sixth, at Silbury Hill. This possibility derives from the bed of the River Earn to north being over 10m (33 ft) below the datum, and Machaney Water being in steep gullies above and below the flat area on which the mound sits, Fig E7. Thus there could have been earlier, but lesser mounting floods at North Mains which did not affect the refuge.
Consider the volumes of water, their likely rates of flow and the consequences of an instantaneous deluge for those trapped by the confluence: a scenario comparable with that advanced for Silbury Hill. However, for the events at the two sites to have a common cause their dates need to coincide. The last of the floods at Silbury Hill has been deduced to be a few years earlier than the first arrival of the Egyptians c2100BC. Earlier ones are speculated to have been at 140 year average intervals, Fig 33. Here at North Mains, excavated in 1978/9, radiocarbon dating results in: 1855bc+/-100, notionally c2313BC for the old land surface,1785bc+/-85, notionally c2209BC under the stone drainage layer, and 1665bc+/-85, notionally c2053BC at the time of the final flood.
These two groups of dates do not coincide but clearly they are close: that for North Mains may be, say, 200 years too late. Given the developments in radiocarbon technology over the last three decades, and the nature of the assessment made by the author for Silbury Hill, there is promise that the difference can be accounted for. Of great interest in this respect will be the dates derived from the 2007/8 Silbury Hill excavations by English Heritage. Maybe the dates for North Mains can be re assessed. There is a good chance that both sites simultaneously suffered the consequences of the jerks of the EAS as it left the Pole and moved south to St Petersburg.
