Camelford
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Another longheld Cornish tradition favours Camelford as the site of glorious Camelot, and that Arthur's final fateful battle on a site called Camlann, was fought nearby at the ancient Slaughter Bridge on the River Camel. A Dark Age memorial stone bears the inscription 'Here lies Latinus, son of Mago'. Following the carnage of Camlann, Arthur was supposedly carried to the narrow harbour at Boscastle to be borne away on an ethereal barge to the Isle of Avalon, where the mortally wounded king would be healed by Morgan le Fay, his half-sister. It became a strongly held belief that one day Arthur would be reborn and return to rescue his people from bondage.