Tintagel

Tintagel is nowadays a small village of the north-eastern coast of the county of Cornouailles. Its population is approximately 700 inhabitants (census of 2001). The village was called Trevena (Cornique Tre war Venydh ) until 1850, date on which it was decided to rename it. The most picturesque building of the village east its old post office, a house of the 14th century transformed into postal office at the 19th century and which belongs now to the National Trust, a private organization of safeguard of the inheritance.

In the Legend arthurienne, it is the place of origin of the King Arthur. One finds indeed with the immediate surroundings of the village, on the rock littoral, of the ruins which go up can be at the 5th century, and called the “castle of Arthur”. The excavations undertaken in the Années 1930 by Ralegh Radford indeed established the existence of a Celtic place of worship and of a commercial counter of Ve and VIe centuries around the site of a castle of the 12th century. It is thought that the place was a center of important exchange with the Mediterranean world immediately after the fall of the Roman Empire. More recent excavations made it possible to discover in 1998, “Pierre d' Arthur”.

Tintagel is quoted by Tennyson in its poem “. ”

“Tintagel” is also the title of an orchestral poem composed by Sir Arnold Bax.

External bonds

a rather complete French-speaking site on Tintagel, with several photographs and a plan of the castle.
Tintagel (DMOZ.org)
Site of the department of archeology of the University of Glasgow, page devoted to the excavations of 1998.
Geoffrey off Monmouth
See Tintagel - Best Photographs from Tintagel

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