THE MATTER OF BRITAIN: - damowords

Athrwys ap Meurig -was buried at the church, claiming to have unearthed the
very tombstone which reads REX ARTORIVS FILI MAVRICIVS. The Litologist
musty be wary, however, for this Arthur lived in the seventh century.
*** The first mention of the Cornovii occurs in the works of Ptolemy in the
2nd century A.D.: From these¹ toward the east are the Cornavi, among whom are
the towns: Deva,² Legio XX Victrix 17*30 56°45, Viroconium³ 16*45 55°45 -
Geographia II.ii
This tribe was the only civitas to have a regiment in the Roman Empire –
according to the Notitia Dignitatum it was the Cohors I Cornoviorum,
stationed at Newcastle. Confusingly, there were also Cornovii tribes at the
far ends of the island – one at Caithness & the other to the east of the River
Tamar, giving Cornwall its future name.
**** Roger White & Phillip Barker - Wroxeter : life & death of a Roman city.
That Wroxeter was possibly Camelot was sounded out by Graham Phillips
and Martin Keatman in their book, King Arthur – the true story (1992).
**** Through the annals of time there have been many instances of
triumphant conquerors marrying into a defeated royal house in order to
legitimise their ill-gotten gains, such as Napoloen’s wedding to the Austrian
Princess, Maria Louisa.
***** In the HB Nennius names another of the Wonders of Britain being in the
proposed Argoed, this time at Builth in modern Powys.
There is another wonderful thing in the region which is called Buelt. There is in that
place a heap of stones, and one stone superposed on the pile with the footprint of a
dog on it. When he hunted the boar Troynt, Cabal, who was the dog of Arthur the
soldier, impressed his footprint on the stone and Arthur afterwards collected a pile
of stones under the stone, whereon was the footprint of his dog, and it is called
Carn Cabal. And men come and carry the stone in their hands for the space of a day
and a night, and on the morrow it is found upon its pile.