Sub-Roman Britain (Cavalry etc)

[Agraes]

Britons relied heavily on cavalry, as reported in Welsh poems such as "Y Gododdin". This cavalry was probably near of the late roman cavalry, main weapons beeing sword and javelins, probably few true "heavy cavalry" with lance.

The Aberlemno stone shows an interesting battle scene:
http://www.ancient-scotland.co.uk/pics/aberk1.jpg

This is often said to be representing the battle of Dunnichen, with Picts (infantry and some unarmoured riders) and Northumbrian cavalry, but its more likely to be a battle between Picts and Strathclyde Britons, around 720 AD.

BTW, Im leading a project of mod for Rome: Total War (just released, I worked with Robert and Razor), called Arthurian: TW (check here for more info http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=107 ). I work also on it with an irish historian and linguist, Ranika. He got access to lot of sources, and there is mention of interesting things:
- a theory about Sarmatians that settled in Ireland, and eventually beeing the origin of the Dal Riadans (but its only a theory)
- a record of welsh horse archers in the high middle age.