THE MATTER OF BRITAIN: - damowords

Cornoviorum). The latter was the fourth largest city in Roman
Britain, & became the de facto capital of the Cornovii under
Roman rule.
Archeological evidence indicates that in the sub-Roman period,
after falling into disrepair, an extensive program of house building
began around the year 530. Archeologists agree that a person of
some power instigated the building program, one in which the
measurements of the Roman Empire were religiously followed
using materials only a wealthy nobleman could afford. Was this
man the neo-Roman Arthur championing an imperial renaissance?
We definitely have a whiff of Arthur, or at least somebody like
him, in the region.
Whether or not the former basilica was being used as a market
cannot be proved but whatever was going on there it is obvious
that there was still an authority controlling the former public
building since the decision to level the interior & lay paths clearly
involved a level of organisation, & a workforce to control...
possibly one of the leading families of the community had seized
power &, taking on the trappings of a military warlord, ruled
Wroxeter as his domain ****
Back at Baschurch the river Perry runs close by the town. It is a
tributary of the mighty Severn, whose twenty-mile course begins
a few miles north of the border town of Oswestry. Just to the north
of that town, towering above the Perry, is the fabulously wellpreserved
iron-age hill fort of Old Oswestry, a site crackling with
Arthuriana. It is known as Caer Ogyyrfan, after Arthur’s father-inlaw,
whose daughter was given in the Welsh Triads as Guinevere!
Was this castle central to the battle on the river Bassas/Perry?
Who were Aethur's oppnents that day - perhaps the Irish, perhaps
the Angles, or even his fellow countrymen in an example of the
internecine warfare that plagued the Britons, as commented on
by Bede in his Ecclisiastical History;
In the meantime, in Britain, there was some respite from foreign, but not
from civil war. There still remained the ruins of cities destroyed by the
enemy, and abandoned; and the natives, who had escaped the enemy, now
fought against each other.