Bwrdd Arthur

Bwrdd Arthur

South slope from Bwrdd Arthur

St Michael's church

Bwrdd Arthur is a walled hill fort on the Druid Island of Anglesey . Llanfihangel Din Sylwy is located to the east of the complex with the St. Michaels Church .

When the Roman general and governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus conquered Mona (Anglesey) with the Llyn Cerrig brook around AD 60 , the island was an important center of Druidism, which confirms the importance of the sacrificial site.

Almost all of the artifacts are now on display at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff .

context

Geoffrey Ashe identified other places with the name Arthur's table.

• King Arthur's Round Table (Cumbria) (German: King Arthur's Round Table in Cumbria) is a Neolithic or Bronze Age henge at Eamont Bridge south of Penrith in England . The monument is the central of three henges that lie in a triangle that extends west of the Lowther and Eamont rivers. The henge in the south (the Little Round Table) was destroyed. The 117 m long Henge von Mayburgh is a few hundred meters away to the west. The Hill of Skulls is also nearby .

King Arthur's Round Table on the right, including the destroyed Little Round Table and on the left Mayburgh after a sketch from 1769

• Bwrdd Arthur in Clwyd is a cairn (Cader Bronwen) on a hill,
• the amphitheater in Caerleon ;
• an earthwork on Stirling Castle .
• Bwrdd Arthur at Wrexham in Wales is a cairn .

In a history of English field names, John Field noted other round tables.

See also

• Celtic cauldron cult

literature

• Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
• Sir Cyril F. Fox: A Find of the Early Iron Age from Llyn Cerrig Bach, Anglesey. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff 1946.
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .

Web links

• Website by Llyn Cerrig Bach
• Information and situation map

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. P. 907.
2. ^ Geoffrey Ashe: A Guidebook to Arthurian Britain (1980) ISBN 0582502829
3. ^ John Field: A History of English Field Names, Longman, 1993

Coordinates: 53 ° 15 ′ 30.2 "  N , 4 ° 32 ′ 27.6"  W.