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C.A. Ralegh Radford and Michael J. Swanton
University of Exeter Press Exeter 2002 xiii + 78 pp. ISBN 0-85989-676-5
L8.99; $16.99
Distributed in North America through The David Brown Book Company
Keywords Archaeology, United Kingdom
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120310490921
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table hover between history and legend, archaeology and literature. This is clear from the wealth of material, historical and archaeological and literary, on the Arthurian tradition. Links between Arthur and the West of England have been of interest for centuries, Geoffrey of Monmouth writing an evocative early account of Arthur and Merlin and Tintagel, and the sixteenth-century antiquarian John Leland reporting, from a visit in 1532 to...