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Tintagel castle - 30 km on west from Launceston, on the Tintagel island

- Connected with arturian legend, medieval age,


- It’s a medieval castle situated in southwest England, on the cliff tops of North Cornwall (one
of the historic counties) from the 13th century. The place, where the castle lay now, was
settled by the Roman empire a long before it. Now only remains of it, but the castle is
connected with a few legends about mythology King Arthur and this castle, by the legends,
was Arthur's birthplace. The name was be a corruption of the Cornish Din Tagell (= Fortress
with the narrow entrance)
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- Caerphilly castle
- Castle is situated on the south-east of Wales, in Caerphilly, where it was built by Gilbert de
Clare in the 13th century as a way to maintain control of Glamorgan to resist many pushing and
attacking from other barons or Normans. The whole castle is a powerful, hard to destroy
fortress with a vast lake which is surrounding the castle and it was created by human power.

Dolmens

Dolmens located in the United Kingdom, single-chambered megalithic tombs,


usually consisting of two or more vertical megaliths supporting a large flat
horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the early Neolithic (4000–3000
BC) and were sometimes covered with earth or smaller stones to form a
barrow.
Spinsters' Rock (England)
Arthur's Stone, Herefordshire (England)
Ballylumford Dolmen (Northern Ireland)
Bodowyr (Wales)

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