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2010-07-12 Britain

Historian May Have Located King Arthur's Camelot And Round Table

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-07-12 12:25|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Fascinating ... in the context of Arthur having been a Romano-British war leader, in the 6th century, just when everything was going pear-shaped. Gildas mentioned Arthur as "Arthur the Soldier" - as a war-leader. Some historians speculate that he commanded a mobile cavalry unit - as his battles were fought all over the place. Chester was a very old city, and IIRC, it was the headquarters of one of the Roman legions stationed in Britain. A rather obscure historian named Beram Saklatvala speculated that the knights named as Arthur's chief knights were actually a sort of shadow Roman government - the governors of the provinces, commanders of the legionary fortresses and the forts guarding the channel ports. Fascinating stuff, working out the hard little historical core to the elaborate medieval legend.

Posted by Sgt.Mom 2010-07-12 14:49|| http://www.celiahayes.com 2010-07-12 14:49|| Front Page Top

#2 It's only a model.

Posted by Mike 2010-07-12 15:15|| 2010-07-12 15:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Shhhhhh!

Posted by mojo 2010-07-12 15:16|| 2010-07-12 15:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Last I heard there was no solid proof of anything regarding Arthur and most of this type of stuff is guess work. My own guess is these researchers have a book coming out soon.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-07-12 17:41|| 2010-07-12 17:41|| Front Page Top

#5 I think the actual site can be proven to be the studio used by Monty Python (...and the Knights who say "Nic")

Posted by Warthog 2010-07-12 19:13|| 2010-07-12 19:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Chester is the only medieval walled city with the walls still largely intact left in Britain. Parts of the wall date from the Roman era.

Chester city walls

Posted by phil_b 2010-07-12 21:07|| 2010-07-12 21:07|| Front Page Top

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