King Arthur's Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)

Martin Biddle. King Arthur's Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell. 2000. Pp. xxxi, 553. $55.00. ISBN: 0-85115-626-6.

In the summer of 1977 I walked up the steep street from Winchester Cathedral to the Great Hall of Winchester Castle (built by Henry III between 1222 and 1235) to see King Arthur's Round Table. To my surprise the oak table eighteen feet in diameter and weighing one ton, four hundredweight was not hanging on the west wall but fixed to a frame on the floor with both sides visible. I could see at close quarters the Tudor rose, the ...

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