Tiompan, Simon21 - Arthurian sites?

[E.P. Grondine]

http://www.grahamphillips.net/arthur_to ... tomb1.html

Your opinions please.

[Tiompan]

Sorry E.P. as soon as I saw the the name of the author I couldn't read anymore .
The likelihood of him introducing anything worthwhile has much the same odds as Von Daniken making sense of Heidegger or impact events .

Off topic, but related and hilarious .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2DStkAaMUM

[kbs2244]

A classic case of a small fire overtaken by a large, profit driven, smoke screen.

Was there ever a "King Arthur?"
Was there ever a President "JFK?"
Did either of them live up to their legendary history?

Pick your "great" historical figure.
(In the US go from Geo Washington to Martin Luther King.)
I will not take much to find some dirty laundry on any of them.

Will there be a market for the legend?
Always.

[Minimalist]

Clearly King Arthur as he is depicted in these elaborate fictions did not exist.

Yup. Jesus has the same problem.

[Sam Salmon]

I believe the proper term is 'bollocks'.

[E.P. Grondine]

Thank you for your opinions on "Arthur".
Clearly this author is making sensationalist claims.

I am wondering whether literacy continued at this site through the Anglo-Saxon conquest,
as a few inscriptions can clear up a lot of confusion.
As a general principle, one written inscription can have the data content of several digs.

Personally, I am more interested in SW Scotland and the Roman frontier feoderati:

http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/ce082202.html

From what I could make out during a brief field survey which I made three decades back,
most of the antiquarians in that area died in the trenches during the First World War,
and the area is nearly unworked.
At some point I will have to return the "geological specimens" which I mailed home.

I will mention in connection with this that one "Aedan Artur" appears in the life of St. Columba.
There is also a "Paradiso Muir Bolc" mentioned in it as well.

As I don't play golf, can not drink whiskey now, and do not generate much internal body heat,
all in all I'd rather be troweling through tsunami deposits on Crete,
or excavating back church yards in Cholula.