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Camelot Hill
Silver horseshoes on the causeway, once a year.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Iron Age hillfort ramparts
- Legend from
- Leland, 1542
- Best time
- Christmas Eve
- Tone
- Curious
On Christmas Eve, they say, you can hear the king ride by on silver horseshoes.
Cadbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort with great earth ramparts near South Cadbury. John Leland, in 1542, recorded that local people called it Camelot, the court of King Arthur. Edward Hutton, in 1912, found people sure the hill was hollow, with a covered spring called King Arthur's Well. On Christmas Eve, they said, you may hear Arthur and his knights ride by on the Hunting Causeway, and glimpse the flash of silver horseshoes. Excavations in the 1960s found a large hall from the right period, which kept the story alive.