History of Medieval Cumbria has no actual associations with Arthur but is said to have been a duelling ground for Lancelot. It, too, was near Clifford's castle at Brougham and was probably given the name by him. It was also believed that Arthur's last battle at Camlann, in which he was fatally wounded, was fought near the fort of Birdoswald, whose Roman name was thought to have been Camboglanna (although it is now thought that Birdoswald was really called Banna, with Castlesteads being Camboglanna). The Roman bath-house at Ravenglass, known locally as Walls Castle, was thought to be the Arthurian "Lyons Garde", or Taliesin's
The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon was completed when Morris was in vigorous health. Morris died in 1896; Burne-Jones lived for two more years and died before the painting was complete. Just one day before his death Burne-Jones continued work on "Arthur". Towards the end of his life he wrote, "I need nothing but my hands and my brain to fashion myself a world to live in that nothing can disturb. In my own land I am king of it." His widow described "Arthur" as a "task of love to which [the artist] put no limit of time or labor." Following the artist's death, the painting