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Winchester Great Hall- Arthurian Legend Location

Jan 05, 2010 23:03

The great hall in Winchester is the location of "The Round Table". It's not actually Arthur's round table- the location of that is still widely debated. However, the hall is home to the 5.5 metre diameter wooden table which weighs in at an alarming 1200kg.

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arthurian locations, pointy hats: 4, country: england

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mrs_leary January 5 2010, 23:20:15 UTC

Oh bless you! Aren't you wonderful...? :-D

I love Winchester - it's my favourite place in Britain (second only to whichever part of this green and pleasant land Colin happens to be upon, of course) - so it's a particular pleasure to see it featured in our comm!

Thank you so much for posting. ♥

nenimefish January 5 2010, 23:23:04 UTC

I love Winchester too :D It's such a lovely city (and I'm going to have to agree with you on the Colin point, hee).

Aw no problem ♥

archaeologist_d January 5 2010, 23:28:37 UTC

That was great. I loved the video because it gives you a real feel for the location.

nenimefish January 5 2010, 23:30:01 UTC

Thank you! I'm glad that it was useful :D

archaeologist_d January 6 2010, 04:16:55 UTC

Where else did you go? I was going to do a few more locations but if you've been there and recently - with video, that would be better. I was going to talk about Glastonbury and Cadbury Castle.

nenimefish January 6 2010, 11:07:56 UTC

I've been to Glastonbury but not Cadbury castle. If you want we can combine our info into one post, I have photo's and video we can use.

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maetho January 6 2010, 02:11:14 UTC

i've seen this table a couple of minutes before - in BBC film about King Arthur. so i was pleasantly surprised to see the same pic here:)
thank you for the explanation how to get there - if i have a chance i will go there definitely

nenimefish January 6 2010, 11:04:26 UTC

You're welcome, I'm glad it's useful :D

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nenimefish January 6 2010, 11:05:26 UTC

No problem :) I figured I've had these things lying around on the computer so I may as well share them around and see if anyone else finds them useful. I'm glad they have :D

masqueblanc January 9 2010, 18:08:17 UTC

In the interests of accuracy, I feel I should point out that there is also a large and very impressive sculpture of Queen Victoria in the Great Hall itself (just to the left of the Table Of Roundness) and there's a little exhibition thing attached to the hall which has a little information about Arthur and a lot about the table on the wall.

Also - sorry anyone who doesn't appreciate the complete madness of my report :P