Cadbury Castle

"Castle" means a plateau, a place for a hillfort. This plateau near Cadbury has been long thought to be the site of Camelot. Archeological excavations in the late 1960s showed that there were ruins of a large fourth-fifth century fortification with ramparts, a chapel, a large hall and other buildings. It was large enough and fortified enough to have been the fort of an important British chieftain. Arthur?


A view from Cadbury Castle.


A man-made rampart of the hillfort.


Trees on the lane up the fort give the impression of a magical land.


The lane to the top of the castle.