<< Our Photo Pages >> Camlan - Modern Stone Circle etc in Wales in Gwynedd
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Modern SitesSite Name: CamlanCountry: Wales County: Gwynedd Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: Bala
Map Ref: SH855115
Latitude: 52.689046N Longitude: 3.695451W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Leafmold visited on 11th Sep 2015 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 3 Access: 4
There have been many suggestion as to where Arthur’s last battle of Camlann might have taken place. Many suggestions except the obvious one of the area of Camlan on the River Dyfi (Dovey) and the ancient border between Gwynedd and Powys. If, as some Arthurian experts argue, Arthur was a Gwynedd lord and battle leader, then this does make a lot of sense, especially when the feud was supposedly with his nephew Medrod (Mordred), another local. That’s if he did fight his nephew, as the Annales Cambriae (A) for the year 537 says...
Gueith camlann in qua Arthur et Medraut corruerunt.
(The Strife of Camlann in which Arthur and Medraut (Mordred) perished".)
So it’s not even called a battle (bellum) as are all the other battles in the Annales A. Maybe the pair of them drowned trying to cross the river! However, the later version Annales (B) does call it Bellum Camlan, just as Arthur changes from simply ‘arthur’ to ‘Rex (King) Arthur’. This version also turns Mordred into a bady.
In the area are: Afon Gamlan, the mountain pass Camlan, a stretch of the river Dyfi called Camlan, a farm called Meas-y-Camlan and the Field of Camlan.
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