The coastline around Tintagel is significant because it is composed of old Devonian slate ; about a mile southwards from Tintagel towards Treknow the coastline was quarried extensively for this hard-wearing roofing surface.

The story is told in verse in ' Musings on Tintagel and its Heroes ' by Joseph Brown, 1897 ; the youth was buried in Tintagel Churchyard and the grave is marked by a wooden cross ( his name is given in the official Italian usage, surname first: Catanese Domenico ).

* Taylor, William ( 1930 ) History of Tintagel ; compiled from ancient records and modern writers.

Archaeologist and historian Charles Thomas believed that they did not stay at Tintagel all the year round but that they moved around: " A typical king with his family, relatives, dependants, resident hostages, officials and court-followers, and a private militia or war-band -- in all, probably between a hundred and three hundred souls at least -- moved around with his cumbersome entourage ; at least, when not busy with inter-tribal campaigning or in repelling invaders and raiders.

Carrying on from this, he noted that the quantity of imported pottery from Tintagel was " larger than the combined total of all such pottery from all known sites this period in Britain and Ireland ; and, given that only about 5 per cent of the Island's accessible surface has been excavated or examined, the original total of imports may well have been on a scale of one or more complete shiploads-with individual ships perhaps carrying a cargo of six or seven hundred amphorae.

Besieging Dimilioc, Uther tells his friend Ulfin how he loves Igraine, but Ulfin replies that it would be impossible to take Tintagel, for " it is right by the sea, and surrounded by the sea on all sides ; and there is no other way into it, except that provided by a narrow rocky passage -- and there, three armed warriors could forbid all entry, even if you took up your stand with the whole of Britain behind you.

* Thomas, Charles ( 1988 ) Tintagel Castle ; in A reassessment of the evidence proposing a Celtic royal history for the site.

Raised beaches are found in a wide variety of coast and geodynamical background such as subduction on the pacific coast of South America ( Pedoja et al., 2006 ), of North America, passive margin of the Atlantic coast of South America ( Rostami et al., 2000 ), collision context on the Pacific coast of Kamchatka ( Pedoja et al., 2006 ), Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Japan ( Ota and Yamaguchi, 2004 ), passive margin of the South China sea coast ( Pedoja et al., in press ), on west-facing Atlantic coasts, such as Donegal Bay, County Cork and County Kerry in Ireland ; Bude, Widemouth Bay, Crackington Haven, Tintagel, Perranporth and St Ives in Cornwall, the Vale of Glamorgan, Gower Peninsula, Pembrokeshire and Cardigan Bay in Wales, the Isle of Jura and Isle of Arran in Scotland, Finistère in Brittany and Galicia in Northern Spain and at Squally Point in the Cape Chignecto Provincial Park, Nova Scotia.

A trailer for the film claims that historians now agree that Arthur was a real person because of alleged " recent " archaeological findings, yet there is no consensus amongst historians on Arthur's historicity and no recent archaeological find proves Arthur's existence ; the so-called " Arthur stone ", discovered in 1998 in securely dated 6th century contexts amongst the ruins at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, created a stir but has subsequently been of little use as evidence.

Only a few Roman milestones have been found in Cornwall ; two have been recovered from around Tintagel in the north ( detailed below ), one at Mynheer Farm ( near the hillfort at Carn Brea ), and another two close to St Michael's Mount one of which is preserved at Breage Parish Church.

There are two small classical labyrinths carved into the stone cliff face at Rocky Valley near Tintagel, Cornwall ; various dates have been suggested for them, including the Bronze Age, the early 6th century and the late 17th century.

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 modern-day village of Tintagel was known as Trevena () until the Post Office established ' Tintagel ' as the name in the mid 19th century ( until then Tintagel had always been the name of the headland and of the parish ).

The parish feast traditionally celebrated at Tintagel was October 19, the feast day of St Denys, patron of the chapel at Trevena ( the proper date is October 9 but the feast has moved forward due to the calendar reform of 1752 ).

Glasscock was resident at Tintagel ( in the house " Eirenicon " which he had built ) and responsible for the building of King Arthur's Hall ( an extension of Trevena House which had been John Douglas Cook's residence and had been built on the site of the former Town Hall and Market Hall ).

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

Wesleyan Methodism in Tintagel began in 1807 at Trenale and over the next sixty years gained many adherents though divided among a number of sects ( Wesleyan Methodist, Methodist Association, Bible Christian ): chapels were built at Trevena in 1838 and Bossiney in 1860.

The modern day village of Tintagel was known as Trevena until the 1850s, when it was found convenient by the Post Office to use the name of the parish rather than the name of the village.

* Trevena, Cornwall, a village in the UK more widely known as Tintagel

Treknow is a small village in Tintagel civil parish, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom: it is the second largest settlement, and is located between Trevena and Trebarwith.

View of Treknow, Tintagel and Bossiney from Condolden | King's Down

Major excavations beginning with C. A. Ralegh Radford's work in the 1930s on and around the site of the 12th century castle have revealed that Tintagel headland was the site of a high status Celtic monastery ( according to Ralegh Radford ) or a princely fortress / trading settlement dating to the 5th and 6th centuries ( according to later excavators ), in the period immediately following the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain.

The Gift House was purchased by the Trustees of Tintagel Women's Institute in 1923 from Catherine Johns and not donated as previously thought.

Mary Toms, a Bible Christian from Tintagel, evangelised parts of the Isle of Wight.

The coast at Tintagel ( looking southwest from Tintagel Island )

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.

The cliffs from Backways Cove, south of Trebarwith Strand to Willapark just to the south of Boscastle are part of the Tintagel Cliffs SSSI ( a Site of Special Scientific Interest ), designated for both its maritime heaths and geological features.

B. H. Ryves mentions the razorbill as numerous at Tintagel ( perhaps the largest colony in the county ) and summarises reports from earlier in the century.

The crew were able to get onto the rock and apart from a youth of 14 were saved by four men ( three of these from Tintagel: one of them Charles Hambly received a Vellum testimonial and three medals for bravery afterwards ).

Near Dunderhole Point on Glebe Cliff stands a building from the former slate quarry: this has been used as Tintagel Youth Hostel ( managed by YHA ( England and Wales )) for many years.

It is probable that the surname he chose was derived from the original name for Tintagel, though his writings are concerned mainly with Devon.

Gorlois conducts the war from the castle of Dimilioc but places his wife in safety in the castle of Tintagel.

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.

Examining this pottery, Charles Thomas remarked that " the quantity of imported pottery from Tintagel ... dramatically greater than that from any other single site dated to about 450-600 AD in either Britain or Ireland ".

" This evidence led him to believe that Tintagel was a site where ships carrying their wares from southern Europe docked to deposit their cargo in the Early Medieval period.

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 ).

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

The Ravenna Cosmography, of around 700, makes reference to Purocoronavis, ( almost certainly a corruption of Durocornovium ), ' a fort or walled settlement of the Cornovii ': the location is unidentified, but Tintagel and Carn Brea have both been suggested.

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

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.

" King Arthur's Footprint " is a hollow in the rock at the highest point of Tintagel Island's southern side.

The name commemorates the abbey in France which held the patronage of Tintagel during the Middle Ages ( the commune is now known as Fontevraud-l ' Abbaye ), founded by Robert of Arbrissel.

For the purposes of local government Tintagel is a civil parish and councillors are elected every four years.

The turquoise green water around this coast is caused by the slate / sand around Tintagel which contains elements of copper: strong sunlight turns the water a light turquoise green colour in warm weather.

The beach at Bossiney Haven is close by and Trebarwith Strand, just half an hour's walk south of Tintagel, is one of Cornwall's finer beaches, boasting clear seas, golden sands, and superb surf: there is a small beach at Tintagel Haven immediately north of the castle.