Alan LewisCADBURY CASTLE :
IS IT A MODEL FOR CAMELOT?
Here are links I gathered together recently. The main illustrations I have in mind are the one at the top plus the row below it. (see Illustrations link below.)
Though other candidates have been proposed, chances are quite good that Cadbury Castle may have been the model for Camelot; and, as we know, there's simply not a more congenial spot.
Wikipedia article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury_Castle,_Somerset
Illustrations
Suggested Dates for the Battle of Badon (Mons Badonicus)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_conflict_in_Anglo-Saxon_Britain
(It is my opinion that the Battle of Badon took place in the range of 492-494 AD, squarely in the fifth century.)
It seems to me the topic of the historic Arthur deserves a major rethinking. Lucky for us, this process was begun by Christopher Gidlow, which he presented in his book, "The Reign of Arthur."
It is commonly understood that Picts and Saxons did, in fact, attack Britain in the fifth century; and the Britons did mount a successful counterattack. It is widely accepted that the Battle of Badon (Mons Badonicus) is an actual historic event. The earliest sources attribute this decisive victory to Arthur. In short, Arthur did exist. One early source credits the Badon victory to Ambrosius Aurelianus, which brings in the venerable thought that Ambrosius Aurelianus equals Arthur.
We keep learning more about the Arthurian period - and before it and after - through such means as archaeology, aerial photography, scans that penetrate deep into the ground, fresh looks at old texts, and on and on.
A genealogist took Geoffrey of Monmouth's "House of Constantine" seriously, if not necessarily literally, and plotted a plausible family tree including Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther. Could the historic Riothamus be the same person as Aurelius or Uther? According to some scholars, Saint Ambrose seems to have had family in Britain, suggesting some connection to Geoffrey's Aurelius Ambrosius and/or to the historic Ambrosius Aurelianus. Who knows?
Most theories do not prove out. A thing one person "knows" contradicts what another person "knows," if you get my drift. But we can keep inching forward by considering new information, giving new looks to old information, and sorting out most ideas while keeping a few.
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Closely related names
Geoffrey Ashe
Leslie Alcock
History of the Kings of Britain (Historia Regum Britanniae)
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Rob Edmunds