Walking in the footsteps of kings on the Glamorgan Ridgeway | In search of King Arthur's Legacy 

The site is also called Caer Caradoc. Emrys Wledig (Ambrosivs Avrelianvs) lived in the church together with his mother. The church has 7 floors down. Wilson & Blackett found a bee hive and a crypt. The crypt is still there and locked.

My Grandmother on my Mothers side, was born at Cefn Ydfa below Mynydd Baeden and I remember her telling me and showing me a Stone that had writing in Old Welsh, probably about 8th Century with an inscription saying " to pass with Honour the grave of the Mighty Warrior " I know that stone should still somehere near Llangynwyd it was in a Wooded area that I can recollect leading up towards the Iron Age and Roman Fort at the top of Mynydd Baeden which also had a ruined Church, below, the entrechments there all over the place and you can see this place was important it was not wooded then and that was nearly 80 Years ago, it leads to the Bodvoc stone which has a 6th Century inscription above I was told that Bodvoc means Victory, it was thought to be a Major Battle with Saxons in the 6th Century and they were defeated. The Welsh word for Victory is Buddug ( Boadicea Boudicca) are other forms as is the Name Buda( Pest) meaning a Victory, early Welsh inscriptions are rare and Bodvoc is one of the them from that period. I am Welsh on both sides of my Family and was born and Educated in Buckinghamshire I am now nearing my 88th Birthday, I would opine that Avalon was the Vale of Glamorgan itself Rich in Ancient Fruit Orchards . Excellent video St Peters ad Montem is certainly from the Roman Period where I think that is why Christianity certainly flourished here, the Saxons were Heathens that was a fact!

There is plenty of “proof”that the Battle of Baden was indeed fought on and around the Myndd Baden you mention. There have been other investigations that have produced substantial amounts of video evidence for the remains of the battle(s) including the ditches and dykes as well as the apparent burial mounds. There is also the Welsh field names which you yourself could mention alluding to the battles and the parties involved. An area ripe for investigation.

I regularly hike there and grew up in a street on an estate in Llanharan based on the same mountain as St Peters super montem called funnily enough St Peters Close in the 90's and can remember the excitement the dig caused in the village, I even bought the book "The Holy Kingdom" to find out more of Blackett and Wilsons work. I've always been annoyed that no official dig has taken place and there seems to be a denial of anything associated with ancient Welsh history that contradicts Geoffrey of Monmouths history of Britain as nonsense which is a shame as when you're up there on a clear day you can see how weirdly hidden the Church is from view when you're heading up the mountain, so perfectly placed with a view of the coastline but hidden when looking up at it. You can only see it when you walk past it too the left

Thanks for introducing Chris and myself to this walk. Did our first section this morning, starting at Margam Park 🙂

Another excellent video Graham :)

Have you seen Alan wilsons work about King Arthur, he owns St Peters Church and carried out the dig in the 90s

How fascinating. I didn’t know we had so much history.

Just north of Mynydd Baeden is Maescadlawr Farm. Maescadlawr translates as field of the battle ground.

I like Coed Caerau-bach, also on the Ridgeway, as a potential battle site for Badon. It has a large ditch and bank. The town in the valley below is called Rhiwsaeson, meaning something like "English Hill" a town to the north named Beddau meaning "Graves" is similar to Badon.

Excellent as always

Further to my comment below and having just watched the rest of the video, is the segment following 1.30 ish just west of Llantrisant?

Hi and thanks for this, is this site on the ridgway just west of Llantrisant? Cheeres

A great way to look at our past

There's a place near newport called caer mead, and wilson and blacket are cobvinced. This is camalot, as the stone was yellow in colour ( mead....melyn). Apparently, the word camalot comes from french. Instead of melyn, they called it melot, CAERMELOT

Exceptionally valid! I tink I heard of "the Glamorgan Ridgeway" decades ago? but never followed it up, now I have seen your vid, its got me going? checked out the GR on line and there is an official Pathway? from Caerphilly to Margam, it looks awful though way to many diversions etc. looked at street-view for lots of it! the ridgeway is marked on the map on a few hilltops and looks impressive, but only a little bit, the majority are only rights of way paths nothing to do with the Ancient Ridgeway? and it makes me think after spending a good few hours studying the possible route? (no idea really) I cannot believe there was a long distance path across South Wales? fine on the hill tops but the these are shortish with a lot of deepish valleys to cross? so I cannot imagine a ridgeway some thing like the south downs? which are almost continous on a hilltop for a very long way. I am sceptical that this route existed at all as it does not seem practical. Thank you anyway for creating this fine history vid. keep them coming, I know yours will be much more controversial (I hope). Nice one.

Excellent. Always good to share social history. I must walk some of the Ridgeway.

Read the Llandaff charters

I think Wilson dug up Arthur and buried him in a place where academia couldn't find him, because we know what they would do with him!