Geoffrey Ashe: Difference between revisions

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| alma_mater = [[Cambridge University]]<br />[[University of British Columbia]]

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| notable_works =''King Arthur's Avalon: The Story of Glastonbury''

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==Work==

Ashe, co-founder (with [[Ralegh Radford|C. A. Ralegh Radford]]) and Secretary of the Camelot Research Committee has also helped demonstrate, through a dig directed by [[Leslie Alcock]] in 1966–70, that [[Cadbury Castle, Somerset|Cadbury Castle]], identified as [[Camelot]] by the 16th-century [[antiquary]] [[John Leland (antiquary)|John Leland]], was actually refortified in the latter part of the fifth century, in works as yet unparalleled elsewhere in Britain at the time. Ashe's point is that when Leland picked out this hill as Camelot, he picked what seems to be the most plausible candidate; yet even an archaeologist could not have guessed that the fifth-century fortification was embedded in the earthworks, just by looking without digging.<ref name="britannia"/>

 

 

 

 

 

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