The so-called " Arthur stone ", discovered in 1998 among the ruins at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall in securely dated 6th-century contexts, created a brief stir but proved irrelevant.

Following the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, Shackleton transferred to the troopship Tintagel Castle where, in March 1900, he met an army lieutenant, Cedric Longstaff, whose father Llewellyn W. Longstaff was the main financial backer of the National Antarctic Expedition, then being organised in London.

The village and nearby Tintagel Castle are associated with the legends surrounding King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table.

Toponymists have had difficulty explaining the origin of ' Tintagel ': the probability is that it is Norman French as the Cornish of the 13th century would have lacked the soft ' g ' (' i / j ' in the earliest forms: see also Tintagel Castle ).

Remains of Tintagel Castle, legendary birthplace of King Arthur

( If this is correct then it would have been on the site of Tintagel Castle.

* Tintagel Castle Lodge of Mark Master Masons No. 1800 which was consecrated on 23 April 1999.

It stands on the cliffs between Trevena and Tintagel Castle and is listed Grade I.

The film Knights of the Round Table had some sequences filmed near Tintagel Castle with local people as extras: this was in 1953 though it was not released until 1954.

Overlooking the ruins of Tintagel Castle.

* Radford, C. A. Ralegh ( 1939 ) Tintagel Castle.

* Tintagel Castle, Tintagel, Cornwall.

Tintagel Castle is a 13th Century construct whereas the Arthurian legends refer to the post-Roman / early Saxon era of the mid 5th Century making the two completely unrelated.

Tintagel Castle () is a medieval fortification located on the peninsula of Tintagel Island, adjacent to the village of Tintagel in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom.

Today, Tintagel Castle is a tourist destination, as it has been since the mid-19th century, and it is managed by the governmental organisation English Heritage.

It was in this regional background that settlement continued at Tintagel Castle, with the creation of what is known by archaeologists as Period II of the site.

The hypothesis that Tintagel Castle had been a monastery during Period II was pioneered by the Devon archaeologist C. A. Ralegh Radford, who excavated at the site from 1933 through to 1938.

He came to this conclusion based upon some similarities in the structures of the Early Medieval elements of Tintagel Castle and the seventh century monastery at the site of Whitby Abbey in Yorkshire.

In 1225 Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, swapped the land of Merthen ( originally part of the manor of Winnianton ) with Gervase de Tintagel for Tintagel Castle.

The Roman Catholic parish of Bodmin includes a large area of North Cornwall and there are churches also at Wadebridge, Padstow and Tintagel.

File: Rocky Valley labyrinth Tintagel. jpg | Seven-ring classical labyrinth of unknown age in Rocky Valley near Tintagel, Cornwall, UK.

Tintagel (; ; originally Trevena from ) is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Tintagel was one of the 17 Antiqua maneria of the Duchy of Cornwall.

Two of the Roman milestones found in Cornwall are at Tintagel ( the earlier of the two is described under Trethevy ): the later one was found in the walls of the churchyard in 1889 and is preserved in the church.

Another version is Thomas Hardy's The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse, a one act play which was published in 1923.

The novelist Dinah Maria Craik visited Tintagel in 1883 and published an informative account of her journey through Cornwall the following year.

Tintagel was the venue for the Gorseth of Cornwall in 1964.

The Earls and Dukes of Cornwall ( to whom the castle belonged ) were never resident at Tintagel though a few of them are known to have visited.

* Online Catalogue for Tintagel, Cornwall Record Office

" Archaeologists know of five milestones or route-markers that have been found in Cornwall and which would have been erected in the Romano-British period to chart the roads, and two of these have been found in the vicinity of Tintagel, indicating the likelihood that a road passed through the locality.

As Duchy of Cornwall property the manor of Tintagel was among those seized by the Commonwealth government of the 1650s ( returning to the Duchy in 1660 ).

Tintagel Castle is one of the landholdings of the Duke of Cornwall, Prince Charles, who refuses to reveal the date or circumstances under which the castle was transferred to the care of English Heritage.

Another version is Thomas Hardy's The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse, a one act play which was published in 1923 ( the book included an imaginary drawing of the castle at the period ).

Heysham also contains one of only three sites in Britain and Ireland that contain a pre-roman labyrinth, the others being located at Tintagel, Cornwall and Hollywood, Co. Wicklow, Ireland

Tintagel is also used as a locus for the Arthurian mythos by the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the poem Idylls of the King.

Tintagel has also the Catholic church of St Paul the Apostle which has a thirty-thousand piece mosaic of the saint within its walls.

People from many other countries also come to Tintagel to view the names of their babies who have been lost due to miscarriage, stillbirth or other cause.

Hardy and his first wife visited Tintagel on various occasions: she drew a sketch of the inside of the church as it was about 1867 R. S. Hawker's poem about the bells of Forrabury refers also to those of Tintagel, but more notable is his one on the Quest for the Sangraal ( first published at Exeter in 1864 ).

Edward Elgar also composed while on a visit to Tintagel.

It was also the occasional residence of John Douglas Cook, founder editor of the Saturday Review ( d. 1868 ) who is buried at Tintagel.

" Geoffrey of Monmouth's story goes on to explain how the wizard Merlin was summoned, and in order to help get them into Tintagel Castle, he magically changed Uther's appearance to that of Gorlois, whilst also changing his own and Ulfin's appearances to those of two of Gorlois's companions.

They were also strong in the Isle of Wight amongst farm labourers, largely due to the inspirational teachings of Mary Toms of Tintagel, Cornwall.