This is worth a read for recent finds from Late Antique Tintagel (5th-7thC AD) & British-Byzantine contacts...http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/king-arthur-castle-cornwall-tintagel-dark-ages-palace-camelot-a7168761.html …
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...On "Arthurian studies" & Tintagel, really nothing worth adding since Oliver Padel + Charles Thomas wrote c.25yrs ago: connection...
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....good for tourism, but not historical etc etc etc: see Arthur of the Welsh (Cardiff, 1991) & Tintagel: Arthur+Archaeology (London, 1993).
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On 'Dark Ages', English Heritage for some reason seen to like, but most ppl who research period really don't...https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/744822366643990528 …
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Finally, on British-Byzantine contacts is not too bad :) See https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/721621412037992448 …, which I'm fitfully working up into a proper article :)
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Yeah, isn't "Dark Ages" a hugely outdated term?
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Very much so, and totally unsuited for Tintagel!
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Indeed :(
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Thomas Hardy's fantasy reconstruction of Tintagel - for which there's no evidence whatsoever https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YiC_l1I10xg/VvvldigMZjI/AAAAAAAAbVo/RVbHZTlJzqMBD4Bd23h4t636FHIDypUGA/s1600/Hardy%252C%2BTintagel%2Bcastle%2BDrawing.jpg …
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Hah! Thank you :)
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& standard reference to wide-spread Saxon invasion - not of culture but of people...
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