The Kings Knot - Stirling Castle
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Was this King Arthur's original Round Table?
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693 Caerlon
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691 Gaheris
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692 Accolon
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259 Mordred
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695 Tristan
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260 Lancelot
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261 Gawaine
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548 Sir Cei
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100 Camelot Roads
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There has been a royal hunting forest here from the early 12th century, it was enclosed by the end of the century making this Scotland's first royal park. By the end of the 14th it had been superseded by a new park in the Bannockburn area, south of Stirling. James V though preferred the old park and by 1500 its boundary had been re-established with ditches and palisaded banks. But it was probably James IV, who was a keen gardener, who first laid out the gardens below the castle rock. The present earthworks date from 1629 with some restoration carried out in the 19th century. Legend suggests that the raised mound in the center was originally the base of King Arthur's round table.
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