British Forts in the Age of Arthur (Osprey Fortress #80)

when The Romans Left Britain Around Ad 410 The Island Had Not Been Fully Subjugated. In The Celtic Fringes The Unconquered Native Peoples Were Presented With The Opportunity To Pillage What Remained Of Roman Britain. By Way Of Response The Post-roman Britons Did Their Best To Defend Themselves From Attack, And To Preserve What They Could Of The Systems Left Behind By The Romans. The Best Way To Defend Their Territory Was To Create Fortifications. While Some Old Roman Forts Were Maintained, The Post-roman Britons Also Created New Strongholds, Or Re-occupied Some Of The Long-abandoned Hill-forts First Built By Their Ancestors Before The Coming Of The Romans. packed With Photographs, Diagrams And Full Color Artwork Reconstructions, This Book Provides A Unique Examination Of The Design And Development Of The Fortifications During The Age Of Arthur, Analyzing Their Day-to-day Use And Their Effectiveness In Battle. It Closely Describes The Locations That Are Linked To The Most Famous Warlord Of The Dark Ages, The Legendary Arthur - Tintagel, Cadbury And "camelot". Although These Great Bastions Were To Eventually Fall, For A Few Brief Decades They Succeeded In Stemming The Tide Of Invasion And In Doing So Safeguarding The Culture And Civilization Of Post-roman Celtic Britain. COVER 1 CONTENTS 5 INTRODUCTION 6 CHRONOLOGY 10 THE DESIGN AND FUNCTION OF 'ARTHURIAN' FORTS 11 Reoccupied hill-forts 15 Reoccupied Roman fortifications 18 The sites of Late Antiquity 22 A TOUR OF SOUTH CADBURY-CAMELOT 27 THE LIVING SITES 35 FORTS AND WARFARE IN THE 'ARTHURIAN' AGE 41 The principles of defence 41 The 'Arthurian' forts in operation 48 AFTERMATH 55 THE SITES TODAY 58 England 58 Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland 58 Birdoswald, Cumbria 58 Cadbury-Congresbury, Somerset 59 Castle Dore, Cornwall 59 Glastonbury Tor, Somerset 59 Pevensey, Sussex 59 South Cadbury-Camelot, Somerset 60 Tintagel, Cornwall 60 Wansdyke, Somerset and Wiltshire 61 Wroxeter, Shropshire 61 Museums 61 Wales 62 Castell Degannwy, Gwynedd 62 Dinas Emrys, Gwynedd 62 Dinas Powys, South Glamorgan 62 Garn Boduan, Gwynedd 63 Museums 63 BIBLIOGRAPHY 63 GLOSSARY 64 INDEX 66 COVER 68 ISBN,97B-184603-362-9 ISBN 97B-184603-362-9 When the Romans left Britain around AD 410, the unconquered native peoples of modern Scotland, Ireland and Wales were presented with the opportunity to pillage what remained of Roman Britain. The Post-Roman Britons did their best to defend themselves by using fortifications.