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agree on this point. Camelet is not mentioned in the Norman 
survey. The name is merely Cad = fight + burig or bury, a 
fort or camp, and there is another Cadbury camp above Tickenham, 
one of the fortresses on the Wansdyke. 
There are two springs in the camp ; that on the north side is 
called the “‘ Wishing Well,” the other, near the keeper’s cottage, 
was probably dedicated to St. Anne. 
Legends of King Arthur cluster about Cadbury Castle, or 
Camelot, and traces may still be seen of an old-world track leading 
from the $.W. entrance towards Glastonbury, and known by the 
name of “King Arthur’s Hunting Causeway.” Though there is 
considerable doubt as to the existence of the legendary Arthur, 
who was very likely a combination of several heroes represented 
as one individual, it would seem that the Somerset ‘‘ Arthur ” was 
a popular warrior and leader of the V. century, who succeeded to 
Ambrosius Aurelianus, and carried on his war of defence against 
the Saxon invaders. Nennius, who relates almost all that is 
known about Arthur dates from the VIII. century. Shakespeare 
in ‘King Lear” says :—“If I had you upon Sarum Plain, I’d 
drive ye cackling home to Camelot.” No doubt he (or Bacon) 
had come across Leland’s report of his tour in Somerset. (1533- 
1540.) 
Tempore Edward III. North and South Cadbury belonged to 
the Lords Moels, and descended by marriage to the Courtneys, 
again by marriage to the Hungerfords, and afterwards came into 
the possession of Sir Francis Hastings, who having no children, 
sold both Cadburys to Richard Newman, High Steward of 
Westminster, who was degraded by Cromwell for loyalty to 
Charles I., but rewarded by Charles II., who granted him an 
augmentation of arms, gules, a portcullis crowned, or. This 
family still held Cadbury in 1813. 
Looking from the highest point of the camp towards the north- 
west, over the Fosse Way, on the left hand is the high ground 
where Somerton lies and the eastern spur of the Polden Hills. 
