Sir, I have just finished your “The Burning Land” with considerable interest as I spent the war years as a child in North Sunderland, and Bamborough Castle was a prominent feature on the northern horizon, as was Lindisfarne and the Farne Islands. I never got into the Castle as it was private property, but was on the inner Farne and also in the Longstone lighthouse. I was wondering if you had heard the ‘local legend’ that it was to Bamborough Cas. that Guinevere and Lancelot fled from Arthur’s court? Is it also possible that Arthur’s court was at Camelon (Camelot?)on the Antonine Wall (circa 200 AD)? I have a book that has an engraving of “Arthur’s O’on” above the then entrance to the river at Camelon. Is it possible this is the “Round Table”–the base of an ex-Roman temple? Do you know of any Saxon history associated with either North Sunderland-Seahouses or with Beadnell just down the coast. The rock outcroppings are suggestive of fishing villages even in early pre-Roman history. Yours, Rod Harle (I now live in Canada)