Friday, February 7, 2025

CAMLAN AS A FOLK RELOCATION OF THE DALRIADAN ARTUR'S MIATHI BATTLE SITE

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Maes-y-Camlan at Dinas Mawddwy Afon Gamlan Tributary of Afon Mawddach (with Dinas Mawddwy indicated by arrow) In recent weeks I had a number...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

CAMBOGLANNA ROMAN FORT AND L. ARTORIUS CASTUS WITH CARACALLA

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Camboglanna  Castlesteads Stone to the Emperors Severus, Caracalla and Geta https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/1978 The goa...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Tribruit of Arthur, Trajectus of Artorius: Another Echo of the Severan Campaigns in the North?

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A couple of decades ago (!), I first proposed that Arthur's Tribruit battle, found in the HISTORIA BRITTONUM's list, represented a t...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

DID L. ARTORIUS CASTUS REALLY TAKE THREE ENTIRE LEGIONS TO NORTH BRITAIN UNDER SEVERUS?

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Courtesy Simon Elliott's SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS IN SCOTLAND, p. 12 For years now I hav insisted that L. Artorius Castus' three British le...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

CARACALLA AND THE LIBURNIA PROVINCE OF L. ARTORIUS CASTUS

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Caracalla's Problems in the North (courtesy Caracalla: A Military Biography by Dr. Ilkka Syvänne) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbar...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

ARTHUR AND THE MIATHI, ARTORIUS AND THE MAEATAE?

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In the Irish sources on Dark Age Dalriada, Arthur son (or grandson) of Aedan mac Gabran is said to die in two different places. Various atte...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Brian Dobson's Chapter on the praefectus castrorum (link to free download)

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I'm having to offer this source as follows because Facebook is, apparently, beginning to hunt down and remove anything from my blog site...