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| There is a tradition that in AD 60 Joseph of Arimathea
visited this area and was allowed to settle in the Isle of
Ynyswitrin, building a church of wattles, teaching the people the
Christian faith, perhaps this was the beginning of what was to be the
great Glastonbury Abbey |
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It must have been magnificent when in 1539 it was reduced
to ruins with the dissolution of the abbeys in England. |
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Glastonbury called the Isle of Avalon for many centuries,
would be the perfect resting place of King Arthur after the battle of
Camlann. The monks who found the bodies in 1191of a warrior and fair
haired woman were convinced that they had found Arthur and Guinevere.
Perhaps they did, I doubt we shall never know . |
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On the south side of Lady
Chapel the bodies of Arthur and Guinevere were found. |
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| The site of the High Altar below which is
the area of the King Arthur Tomb |
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As can be seen from the notice the bodies were moved
from the Lady Chapel to a new tomb on the 19th April 1278 |
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| A thorn tree growing in the Abbey grounds a descendent of the
thorn from Weary-all Hill that grew from the staff of St. Joseph of Arimathea |
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