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Situated on the north are associated with the legends surrounding King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. The village has, in recent times, become a magnet for tourists and day-trippers. The modern-day village of Tintagel was known as Trevena (. Tintagel is also recycled as a locus for the Arthurian mythos by the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the poem Idylls Of The King . The village also features the 'Old Post Office', which dates from the 14th Century. It became a post office during the nineteenth century, and is now in the hands of the National Trust. Major excavations beginning with 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 Radford), a princely fortress or trading settlement dating to the 5th and 6th centuries, in the period immediately following the withdrawal of the " which has added to Tintagel's Arthurian lore. The coastline around Tintagel is significant because it is composed of old Devonian slate; about a mile southwards from Tintagel the coastline was quarried extensively for this hard-wearing roofing surface. 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 an light turquoise green colour in warm weather. Although there is no beach at Tintagel, Trebarwith Strand is just half an hour's walk south of Tintagel and is probably Cornwall's finest beach, boasting clear seas and superb surf. ''Tintagel'' is also the title of an Orchestra l Tone Poem by Sir Arnold Bax . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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