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The battle is next mentioned in an 8th-century text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum), [7] which describes the "siege of Mount Badon, when they made no small slaughter of those invaders," as occurring 44 years after the first Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain.
Liddington Castle is sometimes suggested as a possible site of Mount Badon, and thus the location of the late fifth-century AD Battle of Mount Badon mentioned in Gildas's De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, Nennius's Historia Brittonum and Annales Cambriae. There is, however, no archaeological evidence to indicate activity during this later ...
[14] [15] [16] Solsbury Hill is a possible location of the Battle of Badon, fought between the Britons (under the legendary King Arthur) and the Saxons c. 496, mentioned by the chroniclers Gildas and Nennius. [17] [18] The hilltop also shows the remains of a medieval or post medieval field system. [19] [20] [21]
The Battle of Mount Badon AD 500; The Battle of Deorham AD 577; Wansdyke and the Battle of Ellandun AD 825; The Battle of Ashdown 8 January 871; The Battle of Ethandun AD 878; The Battle of Brunanburh AD 937; The Battle of Maldon August 991; The Battle of Assingdon 18 October 1016; The Battle of Stamford Bridge 25 September 1066; The Battle of ...
Andrew Breeze has argued that Ringsbury Camp is the site of the Battle of Mount Badon in the late 5th century or early 6th century. He bases his case on geographical and toponymic evidence, with nearby Braydon being the Badon named by Gildas and the Welsh Annals. [4]
Because Geoffrey of Monmouth mentions a Cheldric as a Saxon war leader who fought at Bath in the same period, some scholars once suggested that (due to similarities of names) Cerdic was the Saxon leader defeated by the Britons at the Battle of Mount Badon, probably fought in 490 (and possibly later, but not later than 518).
The tenth battle was waged on the banks of a river which is called Tribruit. The eleventh battle was fought on the mountain which is called Agnet. The twelfth battle was on Mount Badon in which there fell in one day 960 men from one charge by Arthur; and no one struck them down except Arthur himself, and in all the wars he emerged as victor ...
Iddawg reveals that Arthur's men are assembled to meet the Saxons at the Battle of Mount Badon. However, Arthur is more concerned with a game of gwyddbwyll, a Celtic board game similar to Roman ludus latrunculorum, that he is playing against his follower Owain mab Urien . While they play, messengers arrive declaring that Arthur's squires are ...