King Arthurs's Camelot and Round Table Have Been Found?

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The King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is one of the most famous English legends. The Knights of King Arthur would sit at a round table, placing their swords down with the blade facing the middle crest. All were equal at the Round Table in Camelot. The legend, however, speaks of a table and not a structure able to hold close to 1000 people.

Camelot historian Chris Gidlow said: “The first accounts of the Round Table show that it was nothing like a dining table but was a venue for upwards of 1,000 people at a time.

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The Sword and the Stone: Arthurian legend or Fact?

Located in the Montesiepi Chapel , there exists a sword in a stone inserted by a Catholic Saint named Galgano. At the end of the 12th century, Galgano Guidotti plunged his sword into the stone to use as an altar. Galgano was quite ruthless in his early years, however he turned to a more pious life in the Rotonda di Montesiepi.

After his death in 1181, the Celtic myth of King Arthur and the Excalibur flourished in Italy. If the sword dated back to 1180, decades before the "sword and the stone" legend, it would support the theory of King Arthur and his knights. The issue, however, is that the Arthurian legend can not