The Table That Was Never Arthur’s

Malory placed Camelot at Winchester, and the city has a round table to prove it, hanging in the Great Hall. Tree-ring dating puts the timber in the late thirteenth century, under Edward I. Henry VIII had it painted with a Tudor rose and a King Arthur who looks remarkably like Henry.

Place: Winchester
Grid: SU 477 294
Kind: Legend
Record: Dated object

Malory placed Camelot at Winchester, and the city has a round table to prove it, hanging on the wall of the Great Hall.

Tree-ring dating puts the timber in the late thirteenth century, under Edward I. Henry VIII had it repainted with a Tudor rose and a King Arthur who looks remarkably like Henry. This chapter is still being written.