Martin Biddle.


Martin Biddle. King Arthur's cylindrical Table: An Archaeological Investigation. Rochester, NY: Boydell 2000 Pp xxxi, 553 $5500 ISBN: 0-85115-626-6

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



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