Indeed John Morris, the English historian who specialized in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain, suggested in his book The Age of Arthur that as the descendants of Romanized Britons looked back to a golden age of peace and prosperity under Rome, the name " Camelot " of Arthurian legend may have referred to the capital of Britannia ( Camulodunum, modern Colchester ) in Roman times.

* Dumville, David N., 1977 ' Sub-Roman Britain: history and legend ', History 62, pp. 173 – 192.

** Sub-Roman Britain, Britain from 410 AD to 597

Another early figure from British tradition, King Cole, may have been based on a real figure from Sub-Roman Britain.

Characteristically circular buildings as opposed to rectangular, often in stone as well as timber, along with sculptured Celtic crosses, holy wells and the reoccupation of Iron Age and Roman sites from hillforts such as Cadbury Castle, promontory hillforts such as Tintagel, and enclosed settlements called Rounds characterise the western Sub-Roman Period up to the 8th century in southwest England and continue much later in independent Wales at post-Roman cities such as Caerleon and Carmarthen.

The texts include references to King Arthur and other semi-historical characters from Sub-Roman Britain, mythic figures such as Bran the Blessed, undeniably historical personages such as Alan IV, Duke of Brittany ( who is called Alan Fyrgan ) and even Iron Age characters like Caswallawn ( Cassivellaunus ) and Caradoc ( Caratacus ).

: For Brythonic individuals from the sub-Roman period, see the sub-category Sub-Roman Britain and also the category Welsh people

from: 400 till: 500 text: Sub-Roman

In English, the term Saxon ( from French Saxon, from Proto-Germanic * sahsan, meaning ' knife ') most typically denotes a member of the confederation of ancient Germanic peoples that invaded or migrated to Sub-Roman Britain, during the Late Antiquity period ; and / or to their descendants.

Our literary sources on Anglo-Saxon England set in with Christianization only, leaving the pre-Christian 6th century in the " Dark " of Sub-Roman Britain.

Despite heavy fantasy elements, the production is historically accurate to a degree, in keeping with the probable origins of the Arthurian legend in Sub-Roman Britain.

If the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is to be believed, the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which eventually merged to become England were founded when small fleets of three or five ships of invaders arrived at various points around the coast of England to fight the Sub-Roman British, and conquered their lands.

The absence of early Anglo-Saxon burial grounds in the Chichester area suggests that they did not arrive there until more than a hundred years after Ælle ’ s time ; Some have suggested that Chichester had an independent region of Britons ( known as Sub-Roman ) in the late fifth century, however there is also no archaeology or placename evidence to support that hypothesis either.

Finds of Mediterranean oil and wine jars show that Sub-Roman Britain was not the isolated outpost it was previously considered to be, for an extensive trade in high-value goods was taking place at the time with the Mediterranean region.

* Gillian Bradshaw, a classical scholar, writes historical fiction set in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Duchy of Brittany, the Byzantine Empire, Saka and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Imperial Rome, Sub-Roman Britain and Roman Britain.

Arthur appears in a historical context as a British soldier ( miles in the original Latin ) fighting alongside British kings against the invading Saxons in a Latin text of the 9th century, more than three centuries after his supposed floruit in 5th-6th century Sub-Roman Britain.

In 1967 a stone was found at Wroxeter in a Sub-Roman context ( dating to c. 460-475 AD ) with the inscription CUNORIX MACUS MAQVI COLINE, which translates as " Cunorix (' Hound-king ') son of Maqui-Coline (' Son-of-Holly '), both of which are regarded as Irish personal names.

In 1967 Wright and Jackson found at Wroxeter a stone in a Sub-Roman context ( dating to c. 460-475 AD ) with the inscription CUNORIX MACUS MAQVI COLINE, which translates as " Cunorix (' Hound-king ' = Cynric ) son of Maqui-Coline (' Son-of-Holly '), both of which are regarded as Irish personal names.

** Book of Taliesin – Taliesin, ( c. 534 – c. 599 ), a Brythonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, c. early 14th century, the Book of Taliesin.

Elmet was one of a number of Sub-Roman Brythonic realms of northern Britannia that existed during the Early Middle Ages ( often referred to as the Dark Ages ).

Early Welsh tradition knew of a Coel Hen ( Coel the Old ), a leader in Roman or Sub-Roman Britain and the progenitor of several kingly lines in the Hen Ogledd (" the Old North "), the Brythonic-speaking part of northern England and southern Scotland.

Though place names survived the deurbanized Sub-Roman and early Anglo-Saxon periods, and historiography has been at pains to signal the expected survivals, archaeology shows that a bare handful of Roman towns were continuously occupied.

Sub-Roman Britain | Britain in the time of Gildas ( c. 540 )

Christianity developed roots in Sub-Roman Britain and later Ireland, Scotland and Pictland.

In Sub-Roman Britain new Brythonic kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd emerged.

In the 12th century, Geoffrey of Monmouth's list of kings of the Britons, which was partially based on the chronology found in the Historia Brittonum, placed Arthur and Uther Pendragon in sequence between Aurelius Ambrosius and a Breton ruler named Constantinus ( often erroneously identified with Constantine III ), all of them Romano-British rulers placed in the Sub-Roman period of the 5th to 6th century.

' Sub-Roman Britain: History and Legend ' in History 62.

* Klingshirn, William E. Charity and Power: Caesarius of Arles and the Ransoming of Captives in Sub-Roman Gaul.

Post-Roman imported pottery has been excavated from many sites across the region, and the apparent surge in late 5th century Mediterranean and / or Byzantine imports is yet to be explained satisfactorily.

Post-Roman imported pottery has been excavated from many sites across the region.

The White Bull of Builth may be a reference to a herd of White Park Cattle that lived in the area from Post-Roman times.

Alternatively, in later centuries when the threat of invasion had receded and the Irish were themselves invading the western parts of Britain, the desire to keep communications secret from Romans or Romanised Britons would still have provided an incentive .. With bilingual ogham and Latin inscriptions in Wales, however, one would suppose that the ogham could easily be decoded by anyone in the Post-Roman world.

Like other " historical " takes on the Arthurian legends, the series postulates that Post-Roman Britain was a difficult time for the native Britons, being threatened by invasion from the Anglo-Saxons in the East and raids from the Irish in the West.

TF097184 ), through which the line of the Roman road, King Street runs towards Bourne, from the south, is entirely on the Roman carriageway and verges so will be Post-Roman.

However, some of the sites are of Roman or early Post-Roman origin, in which the wich represents Latin vicus (" place ").

Post-Roman Welsh kingdoms or tribes.

This suggests that ethnicity was possibly not as important in the establishment of rulership within the proto-states of Post-Roman Britain as has been traditionally thought.

As in other Brythonic areas, Iron Age hillforts, such as Cadbury Castle, were refortified in Post-Roman times for the use of chieftains or kings, and other high-status settlements such as Tintagel seem to have been reconstructed during the period.

Becoming Slav, Becoming Croat: Identity Transformations in Post-Roman and Early Medieval Dalmatia.

Early Post-Roman Builth was an independent kingdom.

Landscape Archaeology: an Introduction to Fieldwork Techniques on Post-Roman Landscapes.