Editing Tintagel (section)

===Excavations===
{{main|Tintagel Castle}}
[[Image:TintagelCastle.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Overlooking the ruins of [[Tintagel Castle]]. Part of the village of Tintagel (Trevena) can be seen in the distance.|alt=]]

Major excavations beginning with [[Ralegh Radford|C. A. Ralegh Radford]]'s work in the 1930s on and around the site of the 12th-century castle have revealed that Tintagel headland was the site of either a high status [[Celtic Christianity|Celtic monastery]] (according to [[Ralegh Radford]]) or a princely fortress as well as trading settlement dating to the 5th and 6th centuries (according to later excavators), in the period immediately following the withdrawal of the [[Roman Empire|Romans]] from Britain.  Finds of Mediterranean oil and wine jars show that [[Sub-Roman Britain]] was not the isolated outpost it was previously considered to be, for an extensive trade in high-value goods was taking place at the time with the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] region.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/early/origins/rom_celt/romessay.html |title= Sub-Roman Britain: an introduction}}</ref>

Finds from the excavations are preserved at the [[Royal Cornwall Museum]] in [[Truro]]. In 1998, excavations discovered the [[Artognou stone]], which has added to Tintagel's Arthurian lore, although historians do not believe the inscription refers to King Arthur. Two seasons of excavation work were undertaken in Tintagel churchyard in the early 1990s.<ref>Nowakowski, Jacqueline A.; Thomas, Charles (1992) ''Grave News From Tintagel: an Account of a Second Season of Archaeological Excavations at Tintagel Churchyard''. Truro: Cornwall Archaeological Unit</ref>