 Overlooking the ruins of Tintagel Castle. Part of the village can be seen in the distance.
 Another view from the top of Tintagel castle. Tintagel Castle (grid reference SX051889) is located near Tintagel, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It was built by Reginald, Earl of Cornwall on Tintagel Head, where according to Cornish legends the ancient Kings of Cornwall held their court. The castle was built for propaganda purposes and had no real strategic value. It is often speculated that it was a summer residence for the rulers of Dumnonia. Download high resolution version (1163x1710, 652 KB)Overlook of Tintagel Castle ruins, looking toward the town. ...
Download high resolution version (1163x1710, 652 KB)Overlook of Tintagel Castle ruins, looking toward the town. ...
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Remains of Tintagel Castle Situated on the north Atlantic coast of Cornwall, the village of Tintagel (pronounced with the stress on the second syllable; Cornish: Dintagell) and nearby Tintagel Castle are associated with the legends surrounding King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. ...
Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county in South West England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ...
Reginald de Dunstanville, 1st Earl of Cornwall (circa 1110, Dunstanville, Kent, England – 1 July 1175, Chertsey, Surrey, England), Sheriff of Devon, Earl of Cornwall, was an illegitimate son of Henry I of England and Lady Sybilla Corbet. ...
Remains of Tintagel Castle Situated on the north Atlantic coast of Cornwall, the village of Tintagel (pronounced with the stress on the second syllable; Cornish: Dintagell) and nearby Tintagel Castle are associated with the legends surrounding King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. ...
Dumnonia was a Brythonic kingdom of sub-Roman Britain, located in the south-west peninsula of modern England and covering Cornwall, Devon, most of Somerset and possibly part of Dorset. ...
It was claimed by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 12th century that the castle at Tintagel Head was where King Uther Pendragon seduced Queen Igraine of Cornwall, while her husband, Gorlois, was under siege elsewhere. King Arthur was thus conceived and later writers made the castle his birthplace. Wikisource has original text related to this article: Geoffrey of Monmouth Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. ...
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Uther Pendragon (pen-dragon = head of the dragons) is the legendary father of King Arthur in the Arthurian legend. ...
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In the legendary tales of King Arthur, Gorlois was the Duke of Cornwall and married to the beautiful Ygerna (Igraine or Ygraine). ...
A bronze Arthur in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shield wearing Kastenbrust armour (early 15c) by Peter Vischer, typical of later anachronistic depictions of Arthur. ...
A Dark Ages Celtic fortress did exist there. The first excavations, which were undertaken by Ralegh Radford in the 1930s, have come under modern criticism, partly because the site documentation was slight, by modern standards Radford led a considerable interpretative shift when he suggested that Tintagel was in fact a Celtic monastery and not an "Arthurian" site. In the mid-1980s a fire on Tintagel headland led to considerable erosion of the topsoil, and many more building foundations than were recorded by Radford could be seen.[1] In 1998 the mis-called "Arthur stone" was discovered there that raised hopes for some basis for the legend.[2] The present-day ruins of the castle are situated on a rocky headland that overlooks the Cornish coast. Tintagel Castle is one of the landholdings of the Duchy of Cornwall. ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ...
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Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford (Hillingdon, Middlesex, 7 November 1900 — Cullompton, Devon, 27 January 1999) was an English archaeologist and historian who pioneered the exploration of the Dark Ages of Britain and popularized his findings in many official guides and surveys for the Office of Works. ...
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The Arthur stone was discovered in 1998 in 6th Century ruins at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, England. ...
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The modern day village of Tintagel was known as Trevena until the 1850s, when it was renamed to promote tourism on the back of the King Arthur and Camelot legends. Strictly speaking, Tintagel is only the name of the headland. // Events and Trends Technology Production of steel revolutionised by invention of the Bessemer process Benjamin Silliman fractionates petroleum by distillation for the first time First transatlantic telegraph cable laid First safety elevator installed by Elisha Otis Science Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, putting forward the theory of evolution...
Controversy over the site In 1999 there was some controversy regarding this site and others under the care of the English Heritage organisation. The Cornish Stannary Parliament wrote to English Heritage asking them to remove all signs bearing their name from Cornish sites by July 1999 as they regard the ancient sites as Cornish heritage, not English. Over eleven months eighteen signs were removed by the members of the Cornish Stannary and a letter was sent to English Heritage saying "The signs have been confiscated and held as evidence of English cultural aggression in Cornwall. Such racially moytivated signs are deeply offensive and cause distress to many Cornish people". (see external BBC link). English Heritage is a United Kingdom government body with a broad remit of managing the historic environment of England. ...
The Cornish Stannary Parliament is a pressure group which claims to be a revived Cornish Stannary Parliament. ...
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Notes - ^ "Early Medieval Tintagel: An Interview with Archaeologists Rachel Harry and Kevin Brady"
- ^ But see "Early Medieval Tintagel: An Interview with Archaeologists Rachel Harry and Kevin Brady".
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