Camelot and the Vision of Albion

In the summer of 1966 an archaeological organization began digging the hill of Cadbury Castle in the hope of finding some evidence which would substantiate that King Arthur was an ancient royalty and that Cadbury was his Camelot. The secretary of the organization was Geoffrey Ashe who in "Camelot and the Vision of Albion" records his own personal search for the historicity of the legends of King Arthur and Camelot.
Very little of the book, in fact just a few pages, tells of archaeological finds. The bulk of the book deals with Mr. Ashe's theory that the King Arthur legends although centered around an historical figure are grounded in ancient myths of the Celts, Romans, Greeks, Anglo-Saxons, Druids and Hebrews. The remainder of the book deals with a common ideal Mr. Ashe finds in the philosophies of Confucius, Lao Tzu, Voltaire, Rousseau, the French Revolution and even the Hebrew Messiah. The literature of Shelley, Robert Owen, Chesterton, the Fabian Society and Gandhi are brought into parallelism as further proof that the Arthur legends are influenced by psychological desire for a better age.