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3 Dark Age Kings of Britain Confirmed by Archaeology (www.thecollector.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Emperor to c/britisharchaeology

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Early Dark Age Britain is notorious for being poorly recorded. Most of our information about the era comes from much later records, written centuries after the events they allegedly describe. There is endless debate from scholars, based on the literary evidence, surrounding the historicity of the kings of Britain of this era. However, there are a few cases where we do not need to rely on the later medieval records to know whether a given king really existed or not. There are about 200 stone inscriptions from Dark Age Britain. These inscriptions provide us with contemporary or near-contemporary insights into the kings of Britain at that time.

Nudd Hael
Conomor
King Ithel

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[–] Zane@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

Basically yes. Mentions of an 'Arthur' are scarce before Geoffrey of Monmouth's (heavily fictionalised) 12th century account of him, and most depictions of him as the Britthonic warlord defending against the invading Saxons seem to be based upon Ambrosius Aurelianus. Couple that with zero archaeological evidence for him at his claimed birthplace of Tintagel and you can see how many are sceptical.