Shell Grotto is a beautiful underground cavern located in the English town of Margate, County Kent. It is a cave entirely covered with beautiful mosaics made with over 4.6 million shells. The cave, near the sea, has a corridor, a chamber with an altar and a circular space. The walls are completely covered with shells of various shapes. In addition, the shells are often arranged in such a way as to form curious figures: stars, crosses, diamonds and other strange symbols. Many scholars believe that the cave had had an important role of worship.
In fact, the altar present in the archaeological site in Kent, indicates a possible belonging to the various pagan beliefs. Always in the scientific field there are various theories on the dating of the cave, but the most valid one makes to date the place to 3000 years ago. Other theories, considered to be less valid, push the dating of the cave of shells to the eighteenth century AD. In addition to being connected to the Phoenician people, various scholars have advanced hypotheses that the cave may have been built by other groups.
These include the Freemasons, the Templars, the Romans, and even the various esoteric sects that developed in Europe, and particularly in England, in the 17th and 18th centuries. However, there are still no certain answers regarding the dating of the place. The only certainties concern its function as a sanctuary and the fact that all the shells are arranged to form precise symbols.
