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That must be where they landed I suppose. Haven't read it in quite a while.Totnes, a market town at the peak of the tidal range of the river Dart, in South Devon, has the Brutus Stone. I understood the local legend to be that it marked the limit of Brutus’ incursion, which made sense as it is outside the East Gate, not within.
The story says they cleansed the land of giants and actually conquered it. Brutus founded the capital city of New Troy which later became known as London (somewhere in between, not quite sure when, it was known as Trinovantum).
I'm not sure where to place these events, either before the flood that destroyed the man eating giants (or however we want to call them) or after. here it says that at the time Brutus was conquering Britain "Eli the Priest reigned in Judaea, the Philistines have the Ark of the covenant, the sons of Hector ruled in Troy and Sylvius Aeneas (Brutus' own uncle) son of Aeneas in Italy as third King of the Latins.
Cornwall is interesting because the name is said to derive from Corineus, and though not explicitly said (if I remember correctly) some giants might have survived there; or they where the spawn of Corineus. Seems we have giants and giants, though I think this Corineus guy also ate people, though for some reason they seem to have been okay with some giants eating people (makes me think of rituals, religion and gods).
Know about any place's name that by some contortion might resemble the name Lamgoemagot? It's the place where this Corineus threw off the cliffs the giant Goemagot-says he fell on sharp rocks below, have no idea what part of England that might be.