The most important battle of sub-Roman Britain. Gildas, writing c.540, describes it as a great British victory against the Anglo-Saxons, calling it "the siege of Badon Hill." Nennius later attributes it to Arthur. The exact location is fiercely debated — candidates include Badbury Rings (Dorset), Liddington Castle (Wiltshire/Berkshire border), and sites near Bath or Swindon. Whatever the location, the battle halted Anglo-Saxon expansion for perhaps fifty years. It is the kernel of the Arthurian legend.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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