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RICHARD BARBER, RICHARD BROWN, and JULIAN MUNBY, Edward III's Round Table at Windsor. Woodbridge, UK, and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 282. ISBN: 978-1-84383-313-0. $47.95.
In August 2006 a limited excavation took place at Windsor Castle on the site thought to be that of the Round Table built by Edward III in 1344. Construction of this building is well documented in the royal Exchequer accounts, and there is a brief description of it in Thomas Walsingham's chronicle. Edward abandoned the project before its completion, however, and no remains of the fabric survive above ground. The excavation, which took place over the three days of a public holiday weekend, was a limited one. Nonetheless, it identified the foundation trench of a large circular hall of exactly the kind suggested, in their different ways, by both the chroniclers and the Exchequer accounts....