THE REAL STORY OF ROMAN BRITAIN'S FALL

This site does not give a detailed retelling of the dramatic narrative found in Arthur and the Fall of Roman Britain. Rather, it is intended to highlight the author’s main ideas, and explain why he contends that his is the best explanation for all the earliest evidence.

The Synopsis and Timeline are bare-bones versions of the full historical narrative found in the book. They give some hint of the tragic events that shaped the Proud Tyrant’s rise—and Britain’s ‘fall’. That the man called Arthur came to die fighting on the Saxon side is one of the book's many startling revelations.

 

FOR THOSE WHO LOVE FOOTNOTES

The following pages deal with some of the specific arguments found in Arthur and the Fall of Roman Britain. All are welcome to read them, but they are really for those who love the arcane details of this very difficult problem set.

Two pages give the key assertions that underpin the author’s overall hypothesis: the date for Badon, and the real relationship between the chronologies found in The Historia and the Chronicle. Both are crucial to a correct understanding of this period.

Three other pages explain just how the original evidence became so contradictory.

Did Mordred Write the History Books? argues that radically different views about the Proud Tyrant explain most of the anomalies found in the evidence.

A Fifth Century Computer Virus gives a practical example of how a perfectly valid piece of information (the date of the first Saxon landing in Kent) came to distort all subsequent thinking about this era.

Archaeology, the Final Arbiter? points out that we ignore written sources at our peril. Conclusions derived from archaeology alone have all too often proved incorrect once written evidence became available.

 

A FRESH LOOK AT ARTHUR

The author’s ultimate goal is to stimulate a full and complete re-evaluation of this data set. Scholarly studies that conclude that most of this evidence is inadmissible too often use ‘virtual evidence’ to make their case. Only a healthy dialogue, where a number of carefully thought out hypotheses compete, will enable us to obtain a clearer picture of how the Proud Tyrant’s world came to its abrupt and catastrophic end.

 

(The above image is of the dracostandarte found in Koblenz Museum, and is courtesy of

Generaldirektion Kulterelles Erbe, Direktion Archäologie, Koblenz.)