Description

Beskrivning

Kung Arthurs begravningskors 44,4mm x 19,2mm i tenn med justerbart snöre

Nytt

King Arthur was taken to the Isle of Avalon to die, although the whereabouts of Avalon were not known.

In 1191 Glastonbury’s monks announced that they had found a lead cross in a grave with two bodies, that of a tall man and a woman.

The cross was inscribed “Here lies buried the renowned King Arthur, with Guinevere his second wife, in the isle of Avalon…”.

The style and wording of the lead cross inscription convinced medieval people that this was the grave of Arthur.

It is now believed that the cross was a forgery of an earlier artefact.

Similar crosses with this style of writing have been found in 11th-century monks’ graves at Canterbury.