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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

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