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Found: King Arthur’s Round Table. Seats 1000.
Posted by mistergroonk in History on July 15, 2010
But rather than it being a piece of furniture, historians believe it would have been a vast wood and stone structure which would have allowed more than 1,000 of his followers to gather.
1,000 followers… You see? Even Arthur had Twitter.
What?
Anyway:
Historians believe regional noblemen would have sat in the front row of a circular meeting place, with lower ranked subjects on stone benches grouped around the outside.
Camelot historian Chris Gidlow said: “The first accounts of the Round Table show that it was nothing like a dining table but was a venue for upwards of 1,000 people at a time.
via telegraph



