ARTHUR’S BRITAIN, HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY AD 367 – 634,

Leslie Alcock, Pelican paperback 1973.

This remarkable book assembles all that is known or can be deduced about the most shadowy period of British history since the Roman occupation and about it’s legendary hero.

The author of it is the archaeologist who directed the famous excavations at Cadbury Castle in Somerset, originally identified with Camelot by Leland. Drawing evidence from both written and archaeological sources, Leslie Alcock sifts history from myth to create a convincing picture of life between the fourth and seventh centuries, when Celtic Britain was abandoned by the legions to the Picts, Scots and Anglo Saxons.

Apart from the minor but characteristic cover creases that accompany most paperbacks, some minor light tinting to the cover and page edges, and two oval education committee stamps, one on the inside of the front cover and the other opposite on the fep, the book is in good condition and contains sixteen double sided black and white photo plates