King Arthur's Round Table (Cumbria)
King Arthur's Round Table (German: König Artus' Tafelrunde) is a Neolithic or Bronze Age henge at Eamont Bridge south of Penrith , in Cumbria ( England ).
King Arthur's Round Table is a circular moat system, originally around 90 m in diameter, which was damaged by road construction and consists of a central raised area of around 24 m in diameter, from which a continuous 3.5 m wide dam extends to the southeast. It goes through a trench with a width of 12 to 16 m and a depth of about 1.5 m, and over a berm seven meters wide. Then it forms the 7.5 m wide entrance through the 10 to 12 m wide wall. The wall has a maximum height of 1.7 m, and at the deepest point a little more than half a meter. The eastern and northern parts of the monument were lost during the construction of the road, this destruction also affects the northern entrance, which will have been similar to the one preserved.
The monument is central among 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 of Mayburgh is a few hundred meters away to the west. The Hill of Skulls is also nearby .
context
Geoffrey Ashe identified other places with the name Arthur's table.
- Bwrdd Arthur (Artus' table) on Anglesey is a Hillfort .
- 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.
literature
- Richard Cavendish: Prehistoric England . Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1983, ISBN 0-297-78315-7 , ( Discover England ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Geoffrey Ashe: A Guidebook to Arthurian Britain (1980) ISBN 0582502829
- ^ John Field: A History of English Field Names, Longman, 1993
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Coordinates: 54 ° 38 ′ 53.4 " N , 2 ° 44 ′ 24.9" W.