A carved stone dated roughly 466-599 CE was found at Castlesteads, Arthur's Camlan. Because in the past the inscription has been read wrongly, i.e. upside down as ‘BEDALTOEDBOS’, this has been considered a corrupt attempt at the divine name BELATUCADROS, altars to whom were found here in a Roman context.
However, I have parsed the inscription as actually reading ‘SUB DEO LAUDIB[US]’, which according to Professor David Howlett of Oxford can be translated as ‘with the accompaniment of praises of God’. Therefore, this stone clearly denotes a Christian presence at Castlesteads during the time of Arthur.
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