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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

15. The Welsh Atlantis, Cantre’r Gwaelod. Borth, Ceredigion

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week Neil takes us to a place swirling with myths and legends.


In Cardigan bay lies the fabled Welsh Atlantis, Cantre’r Gwaelod. Legend tells of a rich land that was prized and protected but lost to an unstoppable flood. Setting off from Borth, Neil walks across an ancient landscape that intersects with history and archaeology to reveal some of it’s hidden secrets.

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0:00.0

The 15 million pound Lotto Super Saturday jackpot must be won this Saturday.

0:04.5

Or thousands of you will win a share of the prize.

0:06.7

But who will it be?

0:07.7

Maybe Raj, watching the racewalk and thinking I could do that.

0:10.6

Well speed walk down the shop and get yourself a ticket.

0:13.1

Lotto will you be next play in store or on app the national lottery account terms

0:17.6

rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over. Pull back out and be reminded that these islands have always been in a state of flux that things

0:37.2

staying the same is an illusion and the outline that's so familiar that people think of when they think of the British Isles,

0:46.0

it doesn't exist.

0:48.0

In this week's podcast, we're traveling to a place swirling with myths and

0:56.4

legends. A rich land prized and protected by the people who lived there,

1:04.1

rising sea levels, an unstoppable flood,

1:08.8

and the creation of the Welsh Atlantis.

1:25.0

I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped you, me and the whole world. I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the British Isles. In the last podcast you took us to meet a person, a time traveler from the Bronze Age, the incredible Amesbury Archer.

1:49.0

Where or who are we meeting this week?

1:52.0

Well, we're in Wales at a place called Borth,

1:55.0

and it sits in beautiful Cardigan Bay on the coast,

1:59.0

and we're investigating how the legend of Kantragualod intersects with history, archaeology and landscape.

2:07.0

Kantreuylod means the lowland hundred. So lowland obviously means low lying and it's at sea level.

2:19.0

And a hundred is an old way of a portioning land.

2:25.8

There are various of interpretations of what it means

2:28.8

some people say that it would refer to an area of territory that had a hundred settlements in it. would have a

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