The Quest for Arthur’s Britain (New York: Praeger, 1968). Includes archaeological reports from Radford at Tintagel and Glastonbury, and Alcock at Cadbury .

Leslie Alcock,

Arthur’s Britain (Middlesex, Eng.: Penguin, 1971). The case for Arthur as a genuine historical figure and a great soldier .

Leslie Alcock, “By South Cadbury Is That Camelot” (London: Thames & Hudson, 1972). The excavations of Cadbury Castle between 1966 and 1970 .

John Morris,

The Age of Arthur (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1973). A history of the British Isles from 350 to 650, notable for its breadth of scholarship and its acceptance of Arthur as a historical figure .

David N. Dumville, “Sub-Roman Britain: History and Legend,”

History

62, no. 205 (June 1977). For an academic paper, this is a surprisingly savage attack on Alcock’s and Morris’s tendency to make too much of the limited evidence of Arthur’s existence. Wrote Dumville: “We must reject him from our histories and, above all, from the titles of our books.”

Geoffrey Ashe,

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