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These were Irish monks, sometimes called CD's or culdees, or celi dei. Perhaps the legend of St Brendan has behind it, a variety of the sights and sounds experienced by these seekers of solitary hermitage on rocks in the isolated ocean.

In the story of course, Brendan does in the end reach a continent. He travels inland in a lovely verdant land for 40 days, and reaches the bank of a mighty river flowing westward, onward, but there meets a young man who gives him a poor report of things, so he returns to the coast and sails back to Ireland.

[crystalk]

With the collapse of the mighty rebellion of the Jews against Rome under the false messiah Shimon bar-Kokhba, lived cAD 70-135, rebellion consummated in a flurry 132-135 AD ...many very diehard Jews tried to escape into remote lands, and millions of Jews were murdered just as in the early years of the rebellion they had murdered millions of Gentiles.

The coins of Bar-Kokhba were considered unclean and Jews were ordered to destroy them, and the Temple he established is not counted, ie the Second Temple was destroyed in AD 70, but the one to come soon is the Third Temple, not the Fourth, since Bar-Kokhba is not in good odour even yet.

Anyway, as a result, more than half of the Bar Kokhba coins found in the world have been found in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia. These people probably fled Jerusalem and Betar so early, that they never learned of the rabbinical orders to destroy them.

The pioneer American Scots-Irish farmers who found the coins could hardly have faked them; a few diehards did come here.