One of Cornwall’s most enigmatic sites that has been subject to archaeological speculation for decades, King Arthur’s Hall, has finally yielded up many of its secrets.
In 2022, Cornwall Heritage Trust supported Cornwall National Landscape’s ‘A Monumental Improvement’ project with a grant to help with the excavation of King Arthur’s Hall near St Breward. In January 2025, Pete Herring, an archaeologist and expert on Cornwall’s historic landscape, spoke to a packed Lanhydrock Memorial Hall about the findings.
Pete is a Landscape Archaeologist who worked for Cornwall Archaeological Unit for over 20 years and Historic England for over 10, but always returns to Bodmin Moor, which he has explored and researched since the 1970s.
His talk featured an overview of King Arthur’s Hall as a site, its archaeology, dating and suggestions for its historical use, as well as its context in Bodmin Moor. With the results of the optically stimulated luminescence dating having recently been revealed, the team of archaeologists has been able to place the Scheduled Monument in its Neolithic setting.
Thank you to everyone who attended and helped with the running of this talk. A huge thank you to Pete who gave us a brilliant insight into Cornish archaeology and the Neolithic world.
A recording of the talk is available to watch below.
