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So far we known about 13 Arthurian battles, being;<br />
1 - On the river Glein.<br />
2, 3, 4, 5 - On the river Dubglas in the region of Linnuis.<br />
6 - On the river Bassas.<br />
7 - In the wood of Celidon/Cat Coit Celidon.<br />
8 - At castle Guinnion.<br />
9 - In the city of the Legion<br />
10 - On the river Tribruit<br />
11 - On Mount Agnet<br />
12 - At Mount Badon.<br />
13 - Camlann<br />
However, in addition to these, I have gathered enough evidence<br />
to identify the sites of three more Arthurian battles, being<br />
14 - The Battle of Loch Lomond<br />
15 - The Battle of Portrush<br />
16 - The Battle of Cwm Kerwyn<br />
The details of the Battles of Loch Lomond & Portrush are found in<br />
the HKB, while the battle of Cwm Keryn is found in the Welsh<br />
tale Culwych & Olwen. This gives us a total of 16 battles by<br />
Arthur, whose sites have proved to be, as yet, quite elusive.<br />
Despite this, the twenty-first century offers the litologist of a<br />
decisive set of advantages. Where scholars of the past trawled<br />
through hundreds of books & thousands of pages to get a<br />
single nugget of information, I have found the same nugget<br />
with erudite rapidity; in this internet age the same information<br />
is but a mouse-click away.<br />
I have also been fortunate to have my residence in the UNESCO<br />
city of literature, Edinburgh, of which Dame Muriel Spark<br />
wrote, ‘…is a city of books and learning, open to knowledge,’<br />
whose labyrinthine depths of Scotland’s National Library<br />
harbour a vast collection of readily available books. Indeed,<br />
along with The British library, the Bodleian library in Oxford,<br />
the Cambridge library & the National Library of Wales, ever