{"id":38560,"date":"2016-08-09T12:04:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T19:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38560"},"modified":"2016-08-09T12:04:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T19:04:50","slug":"has-legendary-king-arthurs-royal-palace-been-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38560","title":{"rendered":"Has Legendary King Arthur&#8217;s Royal Palace Been Found?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The following teaser is from the August 3, 2016 edition of FoxNews.com: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2016\/08\/03\/have-archaeologists-found-king-arthurs-birthplace.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/King-Arthur_250pw.jpg\" alt=\"King-Arthur_250pw\" width=\"250\" height=\"305\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-38561\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With walls about three feet thick, a royal palace being unearthed in England is raising eyebrows: Could the palace have some association with the legendary King Arthur?<\/p>\n<p>The exploration, run by the Cornwall Archaeological Unit, is taking place at the Tintagel site in Cornwall, England, where they\u2019ve dug trenches to better understand the location\u2019s rich history. In addition to those thick walls, researchers have also found 150 fragments of glass and pottery that came from distant places, the Telegraph reported\u2014 a hint that well-to-do people lived there.<\/p>\n<p>The structures they are exploring are thought to date from the fifth or sixth century, and were perhaps part of a kingdom called Dumnonia. The Tintagel site is also the home of famous 13th-century castle ruins. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2016\/08\/03\/have-archaeologists-found-king-arthurs-birthplace.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following teaser is from the August 3, 2016 edition of FoxNews.com: With walls about three feet thick, a royal palace being unearthed in England is raising eyebrows: Could the palace have some association with the legendary King Arthur? The <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38560\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Has Legendary King Arthur&#8217;s Royal Palace Been Found?<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38563,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38560\/revisions\/38563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}