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King Arthur's Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation, ed. Martin Biddle (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, zooo). xxxvi + 534 PP. ISBN 0-85115-626-6. L30.00.
This book is the product of twenty-five years of investigation undertaken as part of the archaeology of Winchester project by Martin Biddle, with the help of sixteen other persons named on the title-page. It is a bit of a baggy monster, but it will tell almost anybody everything they could want to know about England's most fascinating piece of medieval furniture, and perhaps rather more.
The first nine chapters give full and attractively illustrated reports on literary Round Tables, the status of the Winchester Round Table as a piece of furniture, its setting in Winchester, its make-up and condition, tree-ring and radiocarbon dating, the painting on...