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Lundy, Isle of Avalon

Contents

Lundy Island

Arthur, the rightful king

The Knights Templar

The Holy Grail

Gods, Saints and Heroes

Stonehenge

Celestial Stuff

Mythological Stuff

Historical Stuff

Mystical Places

St. Michael Lines

The Romans

Picture Galleries

References & Texts

The 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entry for 893 tells us that the Danes 'besieged a fortress on the North Coast of Devon'

W.G.Hoskins says this was Burridge Camp

" Burridge Camp is an iron age hillfort which became the burh of Pilton." from 'Exploring Saxon & norman England,'

As to the strategic importance of Burridge Camp; Polwhele remarks on the fact of there being a regular chain of earthworks running from Barnstaple to the northeast... there are also numerous similar relics in the large and almost peninsular district of which Burridge Camp ( Barnstaple) may be called the key, and almost the only means of approach to.

*** 'Barnstaple ....The suffix 'staple' refers to a market. ****** - leland

Barnstaple = Barn market = Venta Berniae, the birthplace of St. Patrick

Site of the Battle (Siege) of Mount Badon

In his book 'Celts etc' Kerslake speaks of Barnstaple being also a sphere of St. Brannock's work, and traces a connection between the names Bran and Barum.