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	Historical basis for King Arthur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Badon Hill, depending on varying sources and archeological evidence, was fought sometime between 491 and 516 (Gildas, born in 494, wrote that the battle took place at the year of his birth) with most scholars believing about 500 to be the right time.
		However, some believe that Badon Hill is actually somewhere to the north, near or in modern Scotland.
		Badon Hill was fought between the British and the invading Saxons, believed to have been the South Saxons under their Bretanwealda (Lord of Britain, also spelled Bretwalda) Aelle, whose reign was 477 -c.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Historical_basis_for_King_Arthur (2850 words)

	Battle of Mons Badonicus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Battle of Mount Badon ( Latin Mons Badonicus, Welsh Mynydd Baddon) Romano-British and Celts inflicted a severe defeat on an invading Anglo-Saxon army sometime in the decade before or after 500.
		While it is a major political/military event of the 5th and 6th centuries in Britain, there is no certainty about its date, place, or who commanded the opposing forces.
		The Britons defending this pocket could securely move their troops along Watling Street to bring reinforcements to London or Verulamium, and thus keep the invaders divided into pockets south of the Weald, in eastern Kent, and in the lands surrounding the Wash.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Badon_Hill (1181 words)

	Encyclopedia: Badon Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the Battle of Mount Badon ( Latin Mons Badonicus, Welsh Mynydd Baddon) Romano_British and Celts inflicted a severe defeat on an invading Anglo-Saxon army sometime in the decade before or after 500.
		A number of sites in Britain have been proposed in the last thousand years, distributed from near the border of present_day England and Scotland south to the edge of the island.
		If Gildas was old enough to be preaching in, at the latest, 514, it is implausible to place the date of Gildas's birth, and therefore of the Battle of Mont Badon, later than 498.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Badon-Hill (1207 words)

	Lamhfada: "Artorius, Ambrosius, Arthur: Questing for the Historical Arthur"
		Badon is traditionally associated with Bath because of the similarity of the names, though there is no solid evidence to support the assumption.
		Resorting again to the theory of generic terminology, he proposed that "Bregion" meant "of the hills," and suggested vaguely that it was somewhere in Sussex.
		On Badon, the twelfth and most important, Collingwood had no new insights, though he rejected the predominant opinion that it was at Bath or the Badbury Rings.
	www.lamhfada.com /articles/arthur2.shtml (1393 words)

	AVEBURY - LoveToKnow Article on AVEBURY
		There are many harrows on the neighboring downs, besides traces of a double oval of monoliths on Hackpen hill, and the huge mound of Silbury Hill.
		Waden Hill, to the south, has been, like Badbury, identified with Badon Hill, which was the traditional scene of the twelfth and last great battle of King Arthur in 520.
		At the time of the Domesday Survey, the church of Avebury (Avreberie, Abury), with two hides attached, was held in chief by Rainbold, a priest, and was bestowed by Henry III.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AV/AVEBURY.htm (852 words)

	Highdown Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Highdown Hill is a small hill 226 feet high that stands just north of Ferring on the West Sussex coast and is seperated from the main bulk of the South Downs to the north.
		On the west side of the hill, halfway down the slope, the remains of a Roman bath house was excavated in 1936 and 1938.
		In 1892 during the planting of trees on the summit of Highdown Hill, a Saxon burial ground was found by the owner of the land and 86 graves were excavated, which occupied most of the inside of the camp and a small area on the outside.
	www2.prestel.co.uk /aspen/sussex/highdown.html (2522 words)

	Mount Badon
		The battle of Badon appears to have been fought against a Sussex / Kent alliance led by Ælle and/or Octha somewhere near the Bristol Channel, which was as far as the Saxons had pushed westward.
		As both Gildas and Nennius refer to the battle of 'Mount Badon', it is not unreasonable to assume that the conflict was fought for the possession of a hill-fort.
		The most plausible conclusion, therefore, is that in circa 496* the Saxon forces of Ælle and/or Octha failed to defeat the British on Little Solsbury Hill and a counter-attack by Arthur drove the enemy back to the east, crushing their power for a century.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/FeaturesBritain/BritishMountBadon.htm (550 words)

	Arthur, the rightful king - chapter 3 - Arthur's battles; a Mystic Realms eBook
		The twelfth battle was on Mount Badon in which there fell in one day 960 men from one charge by Arthur ; and no one struck them down except Arthur himself, and in all the wars he emerged as victor.
		The reactivation of the beacon chains and the re- occupation of certain hill -forts by Arthur was the response in the south -west to the same threat that occasioned the building of the Saxon Shore forts round the south -east coast of England.
		Around 740 AD, almost 200 years after the Battle of Mount Badon, an invasion by way of Bideford Bay, Appledore and an attack on Clovelly Dykes was the chosen route of Athelbad in the final, successful Anglo Saxon conquest of Devon.
	www.lundyisleofavalon.co.uk /arthur/arthur3.htm (2276 words)

	Lamhfada: "Artorius, Ambrosius, Arthur: Questing for the Historical Arthur"
		The River Tribruit is put near the Firth of Forth, based on a reference in an ancient Welsh poem to "Tryvrwyd." (37) Agned, called Bregion in the Vatican manuscript, is assigned to the present day location of Edinburgh Castle.
		All indicators, though they are few, suggest that Badon was fought against Saxons and the Saxons were in the extreme southern part of the island.
		If such a list was Nennius's source, the duration of the twelve battles would represent from a minimum of twelve to twenty or more years, (45) a long time to maintain such vigorous generalship.
	www.lamhfada.com /articles/arthur3.shtml (1706 words)

	Gildas and the battle of Badon Hill
		From that day, sometimes the natives, and sometimes their enemies, prevailed, till the year of the siege of Badon hill, when they made no small slaughter of those invaders, about forty-four years after their arrival in Britain.
		As the battle of Badon Hill is mentioned in the Annals Cambriae as in the year 516 (sometimes given as 518 AD due to different dating methods), some historians using translation 1 have attempted to place a historical Arthur in a context with the De excido et conquestu Britanniae as being written around 560 AD.
		All of this implies that the 500 AD date for the battle of Badon and the birth of Gildas is incorrect.
	www.templum.freeserve.co.uk /history/strathclyde/gildas.htm (851 words)

	Isle of Avalon \| Arthurian traditions in Glastonbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Arthur and the Britons fought many battles against the Saxons, starting with a victory at Mount Badon (the location of which is unknown, but possibly Solsbury Hill at Bath or Badbury Rings near Swindon) and ending with defeat and fatal injury at Camlann, 20 years later.
		The original Glastonbury Thorn grew on that hill; a stone marks the spot where the tree is popularly supposed to have stood.
		This perhaps is the retreat between hills – near Glastonbury, but not, at that time, in it – to which Lancelot and other survivors retire at the end of Malory's story.
	www.isleofavalon.co.uk /avalon-arthur.html (4853 words)

	The White Horse of Uffington, and Dragon Hill
		The focus of the games was in the enclosed earthen banks of Uffington Castle an Iron Age hill fort, which the White Horse seems to be galloping to when viewed from the air.
		The castle is an impressive Iron Age hill fort, once protected by timber walls on top of the surviving banks and ditches, and faced with sarcen stones.
		The entrance to the hill fort was via the Northwest, protected by an earthen passageway that would have been further protected by wood.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /majorsites/uffington.html (714 words)

	Corvus '99 - Cerne Abbas Giant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The giant is generally considered to represent the god Helith or Hercules and some theories state that the figure has been cut at the end of the second century AD when the Emperor Commodus (who believed he was a reincarnation of Hercules) revived the worship to this god.
		A local legend says that a real giant was killed on the hill and that the people from Cerne Abbas drew round the figure and marked him out on the hillside.
		Barren women were said to conceive soon after sleeping on the Giant body, while young women wishing to keep their lovers faithful would walk around the figure three times.
	members.aol.com /felisculpa/cag.htm (401 words)

	King Arthur in History and Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Through these few sources we can discover that the Battle of Badon Hill seems to have been a significant event, and hints at the existence of a famed war leader for the Britons, a leader whose exploits may have provided the basis of the Arthur legends.
		The Battle of Badon Hill seems to have been a very significant event in the times of the Saxon invasions.
		He may have been the one to lead the Britons to a victory over the Saxons at Badon Hill, but a lack of evidence, and contradictions in what evidence there is, are the main obstacles to an understanding of the 'real' Arthur.
	www.dicksonc.act.edu.au /Showcase/ClioContents/Clio3/kingarthur.html (1497 words)

	Mount Badon: Arthur's Greatest Victory
		Now, Gildas doesn't say Ambrosius was the commander at Badon Hill; indeed, he doesn't name that commander at all.
		Nennius, who spoke so eloquently of Arthur's victories elsewhere, says Arthur was the commander of the British forces at Badon Hill, going on to say that he killed 940 "by his hand alone." This is probably a fancification, but the mention of Arthur's being in charge of the Britons is there.
		And in the language that was spoken at the time, Badon would have had the same pronunciation as Bath-on.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/6546/53232 (653 words)

	Clovelly Dykes, North Devon; from Lundy, Isle of Avalon by Mystic Realms
		The iron age hill fort of Clovelly Dykes or Ditchen Hills stands on the Hartland peninsula, North Devon, England.
		The fort, a concentric multi enclosure plateau hill fort, is situated on a watershed.
		In the second phase the area of the fort was increased from four and a half acres to twenty three acres by the construction of approximately one and a half miles of earthworks making it one of the largest hill forts in south west England.
	www.lundyisleofavalon.co.uk /places/clovellyd.htm (563 words)

	Artorius, Ambrosius, Arthur - Questing for the Historical Arthur, King of the Britons by Sheila Brynjulfson
		In it, not only was Arthur dux bellorum over the British kings at Mount Badon (Mons Badonicus), but the siege itself was also the capstone conflict of eleven previous battles led by Arthur.
		Also remember that for a while the Saxons were content to stay on the tiny island of Thanet, which could scarcely qualify as threatening to the Britons.
		Whether he was actually commander at Badon is unknown, though history (such as it was) has remembered him thus.
	www.vortigernstudies.org.uk /artgue/guestsheila2.htm (6774 words)

	King Arthur: The Places
		It has never been positively placed in the geography, but the good folks in Glastonbury would have you believe that Glastonbury Tor, which was an island centuries ago, was Avalon.
		As with Badon Hill, the location has yet to be conclusively proven.
		Also thought to be the hill wherein Merlin made his name famous by seeing the Red and White Dragons.
	geocities.com /CapitolHill/4186/Arthur/htmlpages/kingarthurplaces.html (1296 words)

	St. George in Berkshire: Folklore or Fact?
		The hill does resemble the motte of a Norman castle, but only three of this type are known from Saxon England, each of which was owned by a Norman immigrant.
		With Dragon Hill as a possible religious ceremonial centre, there has followed much speculation as to whether the White Horse (or dragon) is a representation of the god being worshipped there.
		It has, in fact, been suggested that sacred pagan hills associated with Beli, the Celtic Solar God (representing the curative powers of the Sun’s heat) who may have had his origins in the Bronze Age, had their dedications transferred to the Archangel St.Michael by the early Christians.
	www.britannia.com /history/legend/berks/geouff02.html (2798 words)

	BBC - History - King Arthur - British Resistance Legend
		The eighth battle was in Guinnion fort, and in it Arthur carried the image of the holy Mary, the everlasting Virgin, on his [shield,] and the heathen were put to flight on that day, and there was a great slaughter upon them, through the power of Our Lord Jesus Christ...
		The twelfth battle was on Badon Hill, in which 960 men fell in one day from a single charge of Arthur's, and no one laid them low save he alone; and he was victorious in all his campaigns.
		This is the first known reference to Arthur and Mount Badon, and for an awfully long time it has lent Arthur a spurious historicity.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/ancient/anglo_saxons/arthur_04.shtml (359 words)

	Ancient Celtic Warriors: Britons & Arthur battle Barbarians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Arthur's string of victories culminated in the battle of Badon Hill (Mons Badonius).
		It therefore seems likely that Badon was the Roman settlement of Bath, the ancient Somerset town settled by the Romans, who built baths and a temple around what they and the Celts considered sacred waters.
		The battle of Mt. Badon possibly took place on the hills overlooking its villas, temples, and hot-water bathing complex.
	members.aol.com /skyelander/celts10.html (1051 words)

	The derivation of the date of the Arthurian entries in the Annales Cambriae from Bede and Gildas, by Howard Wiseman
		This is not the earliest document to mention the victory of the Britons at Badon, nor the first to attribute it to Arthur.
		right up until the year of the siege of Badon Hill, almost the last, not the least, slaughter of the villains, and this the forty-fourth year begins (as I know) with one month already elapsed, which is also [that] of my birth.
		The battle of Badon Hill was certainly a real and significant event (whether the leader of the Britons was named Arthur or not), and it is possible that there was an historical battle of Camlann also.
	www.vortigernstudies.org.uk /artgue/guesthoward.htm (5166 words)

	EARTHSONGS: The Journal of the Society of Celtic Shamans, Volume 8, Issue 3, Lughnasadh 2004, Copyright (c) 2004
		So whether it was in Caledon in the north or at Bath Hill in the south, the battle is firmly placed in the 6th century, not the 5th, and therefore was fought between seventy-five to one hundred fifty years after Bruckheimer's "King Arthur".
		Even if we agree the Battle of Badon Hill was fought at, on, or very near Hadrian's Wall, the movie's date does not agree with the historical record.
		If there is evidence of this earlier date for the Battle of Badon Hill, I would be very interested to see it and share it with our readers.
	www.faeryshaman.org /es83/es83reg1.htm (2825 words)

	Oldgloryminiatures.com: Age of Arthur Historical Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They fought their way to Bath and were besieged by Aurelius at Badon Hill for three days.
		Eventually, Aurelius was forced to assault the strongly held hill and was killed outright.
		Arthur became Vortigern after Badon Hill but is attributed 12 other battles: Glein, four successive battles at Dubglas, Bassus, Caledonia (Wood of Celidon), Caerleon (Chester), (River) Tribuit and Agned Hill.
	www.oldgloryminiatures.com /ageofarthur_background.asp (907 words)

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