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Published on 24 Jun 2018 / In Pets and Animals

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On a windswept cliff top in the far west of England, a team of archaeologists are excavating an ancient settlement. Slowly, a series of massive walls emerge from beneath the ground. An important building clearly existed here at one time or another. But could the discovery add credit to one of history’s most enduring legends?

In July 2016, a team from England’s Cornwall Archaeological Unit arrived in Tintagel, a small village in the county of Cornwall. They were there to embark on a program of excavations due to last three weeks. And eventually, they hoped to demystify some of the legends and rumors surrounding this wild spot on the Atlantic coast.

The excavations were, in fact, part of a larger five-year research project funded by English Heritage, a charity that manages many of England’s historic landmarks. The goal of the project? To shed some light on the origins of the ancient ruins at Tintagel, which were first discovered in the 1930s.

Today, Tintagel is most famous as the alleged birthplace of King Arthur, a legendary king said to have lived in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. According to the stories, King Arthur defended Britain in the face of invading Saxons. And after uniting the country, he allegedly presided over a blissful decade of peace from his castle, Camelot.

According to the legend, King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table defeated many foes and established a mighty empire that stretched as far as France. Moreover, some say the medieval king had magical powers. One famous story goes, for example, that he once pulled the enchanted sword Excalibur from solid rock.

The first mention of King Arthur comes from Geoffrey of Monmouth, a Welsh cleric who put pen to paper in the 12th century. In his History of the Kings of Britain, Geoffrey named Tintagel Castle as the conception place of the mysterious King Arthur. And although many scholars now believe the legendary king to be an amalgamation of historical leaders – rather than one singular real person – Tintagel is still famous the world over.

Understandably, the ruined castle that still stands on a peninsula at Tintagel has boosted this fame. However, the structure dates from the 13th century – far too late to have been a settlement in King Arthur’s time. So was Geoffrey’s Tintagel merely a figment of his imagination?

In the 1930s, the tale took another twist. Courtenay Ralegh Radford, an English historian and archaeologist specializing in the Dark Ages, began an excavation of the site of Tintagel Castle – and there he found evidence of what he believed was a Celtic monastery dating back to the 5th century.

Later archaeologists studying the area around Tintagel Castle have, however, disagreed with this theory. Instead, they believe that the site was a settlement for high-ranking citizens of Dumnonia, the ancient kingdom that covered swathes of South West England from the 4th to the 8th centuries.


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