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Well I always thought that Catreath was Catterick in North Yorkshire and the Votadini were based around Berwick on Tweed according to the OS map of Roman Britain. Other Arthurian battles have been located in Lincolnshire. This puts Arthur in northern and eastern Britain and not the west as is generally supposed. The one simple fact which seems continually to escape the authors of Arthurian books is that the people who told the tales of Arthur would have been those people who retained their British culture and language the longest. That doesn't mean that Arthur only operated in Wales, Shropshire or Cornwall. Over in the east, the Anglo-Saxon takeover was far more rapid and complete. The language and the legends died out or were deliberately ignored by the incomers who just didn't want stories of a British folk hero around. So Arthurian folk tales and exploits survived in Wales, Cornwall, Strathclyde and Cumbria. Few people today realise that Cumbria and Cumberland actually mean the same as Cymru - ie the land of the Cymry - the pre Saxon native British - Arthur's people.
I laugh when I read books that pretend that they have located Camelot -that was a medieval French literary invention along with Lancelot and all that stuff!
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