Uther, Aldroen and Eliwlad: Possible Correspondences on Hadrian's Wall?

[NOTE: I did not consider any of the following material to be admissible when it came to finishing up my recent book BATTLE-LEADER OF THE NORTH.  To be honest, while some of the ideas expresses are intriguing, I could not in good faith put any of it forward as evidence in support of my general argument for a historical Arthur.  I would ask my readers to please bear this in mind.]

Aerial View of the Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England

As I have settled on circumstantial case for placing Arthur's father Uther at the Birdoswald/Banna Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall, I thought it might be wise to look through my previous writings for anything that might bolster the argument.

There might be a few tidbits... although, again, these are highly speculative and may be merely coincidental.

To begin, I had noted when discussing Banna as St. Patricks home that

"Finally, thanks to the paper by Dr. Andrew Breeze of Pamplona ("St.Patrick's Birthplace", Wlsh Journal of Religious History, 3, 2008, pp. 58-67), I have learned of the 3rd century (?) inscription, apparently from Corbridge but now at Hexham Abbey, by a Q. Calpurnius Concessinius.  Martin Charlesworth of Cambridge noticed that this Roman-period name contained both the family names of St. Patrick, whose father was Calpurnius and mother Conchessa.  Q. was a prefect of an unnamed cavalry unit celebrating the slaughter of a tribal group called the Corionototae.  This stone thus places both of the names of Patrick's parents near the Wall, where Banna/Birdoswald is located."

[https://mistshadows.blogspot.com/2019/02/banna-as-home-of-st-patrick-repost.html]

This is interesting, given that the name Uther, in its original meaning, accords very well with a Celsus found at the Arbeia Roman fort (South Shields):

https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/1055

As an adjective, Welsh uthr means ‘awful’ or ‘awesome’,

originally something ‘high, lofty’; cf. Old Irish

úachtar ‘height’ < Celtic *ouctro-, Modern Irish meanings

include ‘cream’ (note also uachtarán ‘president’).

John Koch, Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia

celsus1

celsus , a, um, adj. P. a., of obsolete 2. cello, found in antecello, excello, etc., to rise high, tower; root kar-, in κάρη, κάρηνον, κόρυς; cerebrum, crista, pro-ceres; calamus, culmus, columna, etc.,

I.raised high, extending upward, high, lofty (syn.: altus, erectus, sublimis, elatus, procerus).

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dcelsus1

When it comes to Uther and Celsus, there appeared to be a much stronger case to be made.  For it seems as if part of the Uther story may have been derived from or at least influenced by that of a St. Celsus:

https://mistshadows.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-strange-double-coincidence-uther-and.html

https://mistshadows.blogspot.com/2018/01/st-ambrose-and-exhumation-of-saints.html

The Celsus on the Wall dedicated an inscription to the god Alator, who has been discussed in connection with Arthur's lineage:

https://mistshadows.blogspot.com/2019/04/arthur-and-god-alator-of-south-shields.html

I did not think there was much to such a link, but perhaps I was wrong?

The native name of South Shields appears to have been Lugdunum, the 'Fort of [the god] Lugus':

https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/1054

n(umerus) Lug(u)[dun]ens(iu)m

Tomlin, Brit. 45 (2014) xlv 454.

I had demonstrated that Uther's grandson Eliwlad had strong Lleu (Welsh form of Lugus) affinities:

https://mistshadows.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-etymology-of-eliwlad-final-take.html

Given all of that, is it possible that Uther is merely a Welsh rendering of Celsus, that Aldroenus/Aldwr is Alator, and Eliwlad betrays some link to Lugudunum/South Shields?  Do all these Dark Age names stem from earlier Roman ones found on Hadrian's Wall?