The great round table hanging at the east end of the old chapel of Winchester Castle, by then the county hall, was long believed to be King Arthur’s own, and legend said Arthur had built the castle in 523. It is made of stout oak planks and painted with a figure of Arthur and the names of his knights, and its holes were supposed to have been made by bullets fired by Cromwell’s soldiers. Henry VIII showed it to the Emperor Charles V as the genuine table. It still hangs in the Great Hall at Winchester.
Arthur’s Round Table
Printed under 6 February · Great Hall, Winchester, Hampshire
Lore and belief
King Arthur's round table was believed to have been actually made, and placed in Winchester castle by himself; and was exhibited, as his veritable table, by king Henry VIII., to the emperor Charles V.
From Hone's Year Book, cols. 161-164. Read the original
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