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Mayburgh & King Arthur's Round Table

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"A little before Loder joins the Emot, it paffes by a large round entrenchement, with a plain piece of ground in the middle, and a paffage into it on either fide: the form of which is this:

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It goes by the name of King Arthur's Round Table: and it is poffible enough; it might be a jufting-place. However, that it was never defign'd for a place of frenth, appears from the trenches being on the infide. Near this is another great Fort of Stones, heap'd-up in the form of a horfe-fhoe, and open towards it; call'd by fome King Arthur's Caftle, and by others Mayburgh or Maybrough. "

Taken from
Britannia
By William Camden
1586
fitzcoraldo Posted by fitzcoraldo
13th December 2006ce
Edited 13th December 2006ce

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