The Real King Arthur
24 December 2000

Panoramic VR and movie gallery

Panoramic VR: Tony Robinson and and Tintagel expert Professor Chris Morris look across at 'King Arthur's Castle' at Tintagel. In fact, the best-preserved remains here are of a 13th-century castle, built some seven centuries after the historical Arthur died.

Panoramic VR: A break from filming at Tintagel, with the castle headland in the background.

Panoramic VR: Inside the castle at Tintagel. Excavations in the 1930s suggested that the only pre-medieval structures on the headland were of a monastic site. More recent excavations, however, suggested that there may have been a much larger structure here – possibly even a castle from the time of the historical Arthur (5th–6th century AD).

Panoramic VR: The site of recent excavations on the Tintagel headland, including the location of an inscribed stone found in 1998, which was marked with the name 'Artognov'. This discovery resulted in a flurry of press reports at the time saying that the historical Arthur had finally been linked by the archaeological evidence to Tintagel. In fact, the find did nothing of the sort. As Professor Chris Morris points out in the Time Team programme, the fact that the first three letters of the name Artognov are the same as in Arthur does not mean that it is the same name, any more than Edward and Edwin would be the same. And even if it was accepted that the inscription did refer to an Arthur, there is no evidence as to which Arthur it might be.

Panoramic VR: Looking down on Tintagel castle from the top of the headland, with the modern town and the tourist industry that supports it beyond.

Panoramic VR: Filming in King Arthur's Main Hall, Tintagel, one of the stops on the modern Arthurian tourist trail.

Panoramic VR: King Arthur's Side Hall, Tintagel.
 

Movie Clips
The Time Team website had its own camera following the filming of The Real King Arthur. Find out about Tony and his polo mints and the sound man and the seagull in these movie clips.

Movie clip 1: Filming in the 'Great Halls of King Arthur' at Tintagel.
Movie clip 2: Tony dishes out the polo mints at Tintagel Castle.
Movie clip 3: The sound man and the seagull: filming at Tintagel.

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All panoramic photographs and QTVRs © Steve Shearn at SAS VR.

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