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	Combat During the Time of King Arthur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Leslie Alcock, in his work Arthur's Britain, says the principle weapons of the period were the spear, the sword, and the shield.
		Alcock expands on this by clarifying that, when dealing with spears, we are really dealing with three different weapons, the javelin, the lance, or a pike.
		Alcock refers to this tactic as the defence of river-lines, which prompted battles to be fought at river-crossings and fords.
	www.georgetown.edu /users/kammerb/combat.htm (1951 words)

	South Cadbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leslie Alcock's excavations in 1966–70 identified a long sequence of occupation on the site.
		Alcock revealed a substantial 'Great Hall' (20 metres x 10) and showed that the innermost Iron Age defences had been refortified providing a defended site double the size of any other known fort of the period.
		Leslie Alcock, Arthur's Britain Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Pelican, 1973.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Cadbury (418 words)

	Leslie Alcock, Arthur's Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Alcock goes into detail about who created these documents and how reliable they are as history, pointing out the biases, errors, and customs that could contribute to their unreliability, while explaining which parts are probably true and why scholars believe what is written in those sections.
		Alcock devotes two chapters to the historical background of Britain from AD 367-634, describing the Roman desertion of the island, the Saxon invasions, and the various small kingdoms that existed in what is now England.
		Alcock then investigates the archaeological evidence that is available for this time period, and uses it to compare the culture of Roman Britain with that of the Britons, the indigenous residents of southern England who now live in Ireland, the Scottish Highlands, Wales, and Cornwall.
	www.greenmanreview.com /arthursbritain.html (582 words)

	The Legendary Camelot
		Alcock reports that records reveal a soldier, perhaps a leader of the forces of several British kingdoms -- but not a king himself, fought in two battles in the 5th or 6th
		Leslie Alcock reported at the end of his work covering the excavation of Cadbury Castle, We did not find the fabulous Camelot, nor add anything directly to historical knowledge about Arthur as a person.
		Ashe follows Alcock's work with his similar opinion: The net result of the fifty-year discussion was to persuade most inquirers that there had been a real Arthur of some sort.
	alumnus.caltech.edu /~croft/archives/academic/camelot.html (1169 words)

	Cadbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		It was the work of Leslie Alcock, beginning in 1966 and going on for some 15 years, which established the scale of this later re-occupation - and its date.
		He found that the re-fortification could be dated to a decade either side of 500 A.D., and that the work involved was far from trivial - particularly on the top-most rampart, surrounding the hill-top.
		Prior to it's excavation in 1966-70 by the Camelot Research Committee (under Leslie Alcock's direction), there was a long tradition of the site being equated with Arthur.
	www.witchesway.net /links/lost/lost6.html (808 words)

	SubRoman Britain - an introduction. By Chris Snyder
		Alcock 1971; Morris 1973; Ashe 1985) and Merlin (Tolstoy 1985) have increased popular interest in the period, but have convinced few historians (Dumville 1977).
		Leslie Alcock's excavation's at Dinas Powys in the 1950s also revealed evidence of a thriving native metalworking industry, perhaps controled by local rulers who exchanged goods for military services (Alcock 1987).
		While the much hoped for clues to the existence of Arthur were not found at South Cadbury, Alcock did reveal a major sub-Roman settlement that was perhaps the residence of a major British ruler.
	www.vortigernstudies.org.uk /artgue/snyder.htm (3798 words)

	South Cadbury Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		What Alcock terms the "Arthurian" period of occupation is dated by the abundant finds of imported pottery, including fine red bowls, Mediterranean amphoras, and grey bowls and mortaria from the Bordeaux region.
		Sealed and scattered pottery were found in the post-holes and wall-trench of a rectangular structure on the summit of the hill.
		Other post-holes suggest interior divisions and an antechamber which convinced Alcock to suggest that the model for the Cadbury hall was not the Germanic feasting hall but rather the aisled houses of villa complexes in later Roman Britain.
	www.celtic-twilight.com /travel/england/southcadbury.htm (971 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Arthur's Britain: History and Archaeology, Ad 367-634 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		In the second edition (1989), Leslie Alcock wrote a supplementary bibliography to the work and addressed the criticism of the work since its publication.
		Leslie Alcock, in his introduction to Arthur's Britain, states that this book is a preliminary sketch for a vast canvass.
		It gets confusing too, but that is to Alcock's credit; this subject is naturally confusing because the evidence is so sparse and disjointed; Alcock is frank enough to address this head on; he doesn't misleadingly oversimplify things like, sadly, many authors do.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312055307 (723 words)

	Seminar Abstracts
		Recently the Department of Archaeology acquired the library of Leslie Alcock, Glasgow's first professor of Archaeology (1972- 1989), through the generosity of his family.
		It is proposed to create a centre, called The Leslie and Elizabeth Alcock Centre for Historical Archaeology, to provide a physical home for the library and to promote research in the subject area.
		These pragmatic issues cannot be easily separated from wider questions of Alcock's intellectual legacy, so it seems appropriate to conduct this inquiry at an early stage.
	www.gla.ac.uk /departments/archaeology/news/seminars/abstracts2004.html (757 words)

	Fairport Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Now, they are relying on the awesome talents of multi-instrumentalist Chris Leslie, Alcock's replacement.
		The difference between the two musicians involves Alcock's keyboard skills which were brought to bear on songs written by other people for the band to work their magic on.
		As far as the songs go, highlights are: "Close to You," a song about a lighthouse operator longing for his estranged wife, and "The Dancer," about a man whose steps are in his very genes as well as in his shoes.
	www.folkport.com /merom/woodwirereview.html (315 words)

	CADBURY CASTLE, SOMERSET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Leslie Alcock with S.J. Stevenson and C.R. Musson
		The rich and complex archaeological evidence for these `Arthurian' and Ethelredan phases was revealed by excavations in 1966-70 under the direction of the author, Leslie Alcock, and is now definitively published here.
		In the eleventh century, in the face of great danger from Viking invasion, the Cadbury hilltop was refortified by King Ethelred as a town with a coin-mint.
	www.uwp.co.uk /book_desc/1275.html (246 words)

	Internet Archaeol 3. Snyder. Homepage
		After a profusion of source criticism began to shake these foundations (see Dumville 1977 and Snyder forthcoming) many archaeologists felt free to ignore the written record entirely and treat sub-Roman Britain as a prehistoric subject.
		For an example of this see Arnold 1984 and for a critique of this school of thought see Alcock 1988.
		The pendulum now seems to be swinging back toward the middle, with the most recent archaeological surveys of the period, such as those by Higham 1992 and Dark 1994a, attempting a balance between speculative archaeological models and careful use of the written sources.
	intarch.ac.uk /journal/issue3/snyder_index.html (751 words)

	eBay.co.uk - alcock, Date-Lined Ceramics, Non-Fiction Books, Militaria items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Alcock and Brown RAF Hospital Wegberg cover Manchester
		Alcock and Brown Manchester airport x 3 1969
		Alcock and Brown 1st Atlantic flight Mint BT Phonecard
	search.ebay.co.uk /alcock (407 words)

	Previous work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Further vitrified material was recovered in the extensive clearance and consolidation of the Medieval masonry by the Office of Works in the 1910s and 1920s (Simpson 1929), together with a number of artefacts.
		However, no formal excavation took place until 1983, when Professor Leslie Alcock undertook an evaluation of the site.
		This was part of a long-term research project investigating the early historic fortifications and other royal sites of Scotland (Alcock and Alcock 1992; Alcock 1981).
	www.guard.arts.gla.ac.uk /Urquhart/previous_work.htm (425 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Arthur's Britain (Pelican S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Whether it is a book about 5th and 6th century British history using Arthur as a organizing principle, or a book about the "real" Arthur using 5th and 6th century history as a backdrop, this book is wholly convincing concerning the reality of Arthur and the historical context in which he lived.
		But a masterpiece it is. No one who reads this book with any care can fail to come away from it without a vastly improved understanding not only of the British dark ages, but of the nature of historical evidence, scholarship, and truth.
		Leslie Alcock has done an excellent job in this book.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140213961?v=glance (840 words)

	ARTHUR'S BRITAIN - Leslie Alcock - Penguin Group (USA)
		Arthur's Britain assembles a wealth of information about the history of Arthur by delving into the shadowy period in which he lived.
		Drawing on evidence from written and archaeological sources, Leslie Alcock, who directed the famous excavation at Cadbury Castle in Somerset, England, sifts history from fiction to take us back to life between the fourth and seventh centuries.
		He also provides fascinating detail on how the Britons actually lived, worshipped, dressed, and fought to uncover the real world and people behind the Arthurian legends.
	www.penguinputnam.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0141390697,00.html?sym=TAB (185 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Arthur's Britain: History and Archaeology A.D. 367-634 (Penguin Classic History S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Over thirty years after it was first compiled, and 15 since it was last updated, Leslie Alcock's Arthur's Britain remains the most useful guide to this popular period of British history.
		New discoveries fill in more of the blanks with every passing year, and new theories regarding Arthur and the political situation in post-Roman Britain have emerged since this book was first written, but even so, it still comes highly recommended to anyone wishing for a balanced view of what might have happened.
		Arthur's Britain is a far better read than John Morris' Age of Arthur, which takes a less critical use of all available sources (regardless of their value) and presents a rather more unliely scenario for post-Roman Britain.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0141390697 (643 words)

	Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournament Glossary of Terms
		Since the 16th century, it has been said that on Midsummer's eve once every seven years, the ghosts of Arthur and his knights ride over the ruins.
		The castle was excavated from 1966-71 under the auspices of Leslie Alcock, where most of the information relating to the history of the castle was discovered.
		Calais: An important port in Picardy, on the French side of the straight of Dover, an English possession from 1347 to 1558 after Edward III took the town in August 1347.
	www.chronique.com /Library/Glossaries/glossary-KCT/gloss_c.htm (6657 words)

	eBay.co.uk - by leslie, Fiction Books, Non-Fiction Books, Art items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Observing the Countryside and Seashore by Leslie Jackman
		THE SAINT ON THE SPANISH MAIN by Leslie Charteris
		The Saint to the Rescue by Leslie Charteris
	search.ebay.co.uk /by-leslie (327 words)

	The Unnatural Museum - Camelot
		This lead to the formation of the Camelot Research Committee in 1965.
		Under the direction of Leslie Alcock the hill was excavated.
		At the south-western gate exploration disclosed several successive chronological layers.
	unmuseum.mus.pa.us /camelot.htm (756 words)

	Slipper Donations
		Leslie Alcock of Ajax, Ontario, Canada - 1 pair
		Grace Ogle of Cudahy, WI - 4 pair
		Sheila Leslie of Oshawa, Ontario, Canada - 3 pair
	www.geocities.com /lindaslists/sdonations2004.htm (243 words)

	Arthurian-era Reference Books
		Arthur's Britain, Leslie Alcock - Currently out of print, but well worth the effort to find a copy!
		Arthur's Britain, Leslie Alcock - Available May, 2001.
		I don't know whether he's updated it to reflect current trends in Arthurian scholarship, but either way it makes for an excellent introduction to the history behind the Legends.
	home.usaa.net /~kimheadlee/refbks.htm (3152 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Discovery of King Arthur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Arthur is one among many mythological heroes, yet most people would agree that he stands out from the crowd.
		The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650 by John Morris on 4 pages
		Arthur's Britain: History and Archaeology, Ad 367-634 by Leslie Alcock on page 75, page 78, and Back Matter
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805001158?v=glance (2786 words)

	MythHome: Printed References for Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Annual Reports on the Cadbury excavations., Alcock, L.,, 1967
		Arthur's Britain: history and archaeology AD367-634., Alcock, Leslie., London:Allen Lane, 1971.
		Economy society and warfare among the Britons and Saxons., Alcock, Leslie., Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1987.
	www.mythome.org /PrintRef.html (2816 words)

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		Harries, Leslie (ed.) [Works of Huw Cae Llwyd and Others] An edition of 15th century poetry.
		Richards, W. Leslie (ed.) An edition of the works of this late 15th century poet.
		Norris, Leslie An analysis of the author’s works and life.
	www.booksforscholars.com /XWMainFrame.htm (9509 words)

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