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As noted by William Of Worcester during his visit to Cornwall in 1478, Legend says that the fort was the place where Cador , Duke Of Cornwall and husband of King Arthur 's mother, met his untimely death.


MISCELLANY

  • The Old Cornwall Society hold their traditional annual midsummer bonfires here on the highest point of the fort.

  • From 1916 to 1957 it was the site of Cornwall's largest Wolfram mine. Many of the old buildings and workings remain standing.

  • It has been the site of a murder in the early Twentieth Century .1

  • For two nights during the English Civil War , Sir Ralph Hopton 's Royalist troops camped within the rings of the fort.2

  • According to Cornish historian Samuel Drew , there were reports of ghost armies in the sky above Castle an Dinas around 1798. (If true, most likely an unusual but documented form of Mirage .)

  • In 1671, John Trehenban , from St. Columb Major, was condemned to be starved to death in a cage within the castel's rings for the murder of two girls.3

  • Traditionally, Castle an Dinas is the hunting lodge (hunting seat) of King Arthur , from which he rode in the Tregoss Moor hunt. A stone in St. Columb allegedly bears the four footprints of his horse made whilst hunting.4



SEE ALSO

  • Castle an Dinas, Penwith



REFERENCES


  • http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/647

  • Tony Brooks, ''Castle-an-Dinas 1916-1957: Cornwall's Premier Wolfram Mine'' (ISBN 1900147157)