King Arthurs Round Table Traditional Cache
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A small round table themed lock and lock.
King Arthur's Round Table is housed in the nearby "Great Hall" of Winchester.
Although now known to have been constructed in the late 13th century, and painted in its present form for King Henry VIII, the table has for centuries been venerated by generations of tourists as the mysterious table of the 'Once and Future King' Arthur.
The table is 5.5 metres in diameter, weighing 1200kg and is constructed from English oak.
The first written accounts of the Arthurian story appeared in 1130 in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'History of the Kings of Britain', which maintains that Merlin had the 15-year-old Arthur crowned at nearby Silchester.
However, the first mention of the Round Table is Robert Wace's Roman de Brut (1155), which says that Arthur seated his knights at a round table so that all should be equal. In Thomas Malory's Morte D'Arthur, the table is a wedding gift to Arthur from Guinevere's father, Leodegrance.
Please ensure this cache is out of site and well covered by foliage. Please do not remove the great hall pen or the keyring attached to the log book. These are part of the cache and not trades or swaps.
NOTE: Peninsula Square is a beautiful location on a piece of English Heritage Land, please feel free to take a look around but please respect the site and the residents, if you decide to cache in the later hours of the day I would recommend using the entrances on St James Lane or Constables Gate.
Cache placed with the kind permission of the English Heritage Trust.
But where is the King Arthur? Maybe one day he will return to his round table . . .
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Sebz gur gbc, gnxr bar fgrc qbja, vg'f ntnvafg gur jnyy.