You mean like saying it was built to protect the Kingdom of Mercia, which their work apparently disproves?
Yeah, I loved how that simpleton kept saying it, and the writer restated it a couple of times in the body of the article.
Of course, we’re dealing with a country that has quite a deep archaeological legacy, and pays to maintain local archaeologists, but they seem to do very little most of the time.
As you know, Tintagel, which figures in the Arthurian myth, was held to be a single, post-”dark age” medieval structure, with one small monastery building.
In the 1980s during a dry spell, the tall dead grass caught fire and burned so thoroughly that it uncovered the ruins of over 200 early medieval buildings that no one had ever noticed were there.