{"id":21947,"date":"2013-08-31T07:29:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T06:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=21947"},"modified":"2026-02-08T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:03:09","slug":"fletcher-ron-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/fletcher-ron-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Fletcher, Ron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A<b> Ron<\/b><b> Fletcher, <\/b>according to <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/castleden-rodney\/\">Rodney Castleden<\/a><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">225<\/a>.189]<\/sup>, saw the Roman <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WoodchesterOrpheus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21951\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WoodchesterOrpheus-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"WoodchesterOrpheus\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WoodchesterOrpheus-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WoodchesterOrpheus.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Orpheus Mosaic in Woodchester<sup>(a)<\/sup>, Gloucestershire and concluded that it depicted a map of Atlantis. Not content with that, he also claimed it as a star map as well as King Arthur\u2019s Round Table, ignoring the fact that King Arthur is reputed to have lived long after the Romans left Britain. It is silly statements such as Fletcher\u2019s that discredit serious Atlantis researchers. I have no other information regarding Fletcher, apart from the fact that he appears to have self-published his ideas in a short book<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/e-f\/\">1138<\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woodchester_Roman_Villa\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woodchester_Roman_Villa<\/a>\u00a0<sup>\u00a0<\/sup><b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ron Fletcher, according to Rodney Castleden[225.189], saw the Roman Orpheus Mosaic in Woodchester(a), Gloucestershire and concluded that it depicted a map of Atlantis. Not content with that, he also claimed it as a star map as well as King Arthur\u2019s Round Table, ignoring the fact that King Arthur is reputed to have lived long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[539,794,2506,2507],"class_list":["post-21947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-king-arthur","tag-rodney-castleden","tag-ron-fletcher","tag-woodchester"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66373,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21947\/revisions\/66373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}