subtitle, "Find adds to view that Cornish site was home to thriving trade port in early middle ages".
The inscribed stone uncovered at Tintagel Castle. Photograph: Christopher Ison/English Heritag/PA
Posted on 06/17/2018 3:56:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A seventh-century slate window ledge inscribed with an intriguing mix of Latin, Greek and Celtic words, names and symbols has been unearthed at Tintagel Castle in north Cornwall. The discovery adds weight to the view that the rugged coastal site, which is most often associated with the legend of King Arthur, was home in the early middle ages to a sophisticated and multicultural port community. Put together with other finds including Iberian goblets and bowls from what is now Turkey, the slate ledge suggests Tintagel may well have been an important royal base with trade links stretching from Europe’s Atlantic coast to the eastern Mediterranean. Tintagel is one of the most spectacular historic sites in Britain. Onsite research is focusing not on the stories of King Arthur but on a settlement from the early middle ages. At least 100 buildings were built on the cliffs and may have been inhabited from as early as the fourth century to as late as the eighth... The ledge includes what is believed to be a Roman name, Tito, and a Celtic one, Budic. The Latin words fili (son or sons) and viri duo (two men) also appear... More examination of the slate ledge will take place with experts trying to pinpoint the tool used to create the letters and even whether the scribe was left or right-handed.
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The inscribed stone uncovered at Tintagel Castle. Photograph: Christopher Ison/English Heritag/PA
The very existence of a community there was denied for a long, long time. In the 1980s there was a bit of a drought, and a grass fire got started. It was so intense that the very sod was burned away, revealing the ruins of over a hundred buildings. No one had ever noticed any masonry sticking up, or made a test trench, nothing. Yeah, they really run a tight ship over there.
Details of the so-called Arthur Stone Discovery at Tintagel
Britannia.com | 1990s | David Nash Ford
Posted on 11/24/2014 3:56:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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Translated, it says,
“Keep the borders secure, and keep Islam out”
“Sincerely, King Arthur”
“Send more Chuck Berry”
and the smaller inscription under says “Guinevere you slut”
"A crummy commercial? Son of a b.....!"
It has been translated as “this all shall be yours one day, even the curtains”
Lancelot was just a story character added centuries after Arthur’s reign.
Gwenhwyfar, interestingly enough, was reportedly Arthur’s second wife.
The name of his first wife is unknown.
was home in the early middle ages to a sophisticated and multicultural port community.
I wonder if the Guardian of garbage knows what multiculturalism is.
There are Italians and Jews and Irish and Germans and Polish in my neighborhood. And I’m sure lots of other European countries.
Each still has some traditions from the ancestors’ homeland.
but our shared CULTURE is that of Americans.
Seems to be in the right spot for a trade port.
Layover on the way to Ireland and/or western and north western England and such.
Also, Cornwall’s north coast had tin mines.
Predates the Viking age and there is no mention of Tintagel in histories of the Vikings. Perhaps the site was abandoned after some civil strife by seventh century’s end.
bwahaha! and also a curious find!
“HIC ERAT ARTORIUS”
“For a good time call...”
Hic? Sounds like he loved his mead. ;^)
The Vikings liked heroic exploits. An attack on that particular spot wouldn’t have ended well, unless they tried something along the lines of the Viking sack of Luna, in Italy. There were easier pickings elsewhere.
There were places in the interior of western Britain that had very active trade links with the surviving parts of the Roman Empire, and the Severn estuary probably is the reason. In pre-Roman times the British Isles were known as the Tin Islands, so it wouldn’t necessarily be a surprise (if anyone ever cares to dig deep at Tintagel) that it was a port for a very long time.
Lancelot was just a story character added centuries after Arthur’s reign.>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Not according to Norma Lorre Goodrich, whose books I believe.
Tintagel Castle Ping!
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