The Palaces of the British Kings

The Palaces of the British Kings


In common with other Dynasties the British Kings had a palace and mansion houses.

The great Palace of the British Kings is less than a mile north of Llanilltydfawr -now Lantwit Major on the Glamorgan Coast. This large palace was almost certainly destroyed in the Comet Catastrophe that devastated Britain in AD 562.

The huge walls and mounds still stick up protruding through the grass of the field covering an area of over four acres and the perimeter walls enclose eleven acres, and everything that can be done to conceal the existence of this, the royal palace of the ancient Khumric Kings is done. In 1888 local people organized an excavation of this huge ruin and they quickly found a number of human remains and even the remains of horses.

This offered clear evidence that the palace had been destroyed by the vast explosions and fires caused by the debris from the Comet of AD 562.

The buildings cover two acres and these are set in an enclosure of eight acres. Twenty rooms were discovered and one was 60 feet long by 51 feet wide, and the remaining walls stood nine feet high.

Another room was 39 feet long by 27 feet wide and this had rich mosaics on the floors and plastered walls with painted murals on the walls.

There were 43 human skeletons in this room, and the bones of three horses.

The site was then reburied and covered over with turf.

Local records are that the excavation was stopped by the arrival of "men in suits", which in Welsh terms meant foreign English officials from London.

Clearly there was no wish to exhibit the Palace of the British Kings in Wales with German Hanoverians masquerading as Princes of Wales - instead of Wales being correctly a Kingdom.

A small partial excavation in 1938 uncovered another six skeletons in the lower stonework of one of the walls, where people might have sought shelter.

This excavation was also stopped.
This is a hugely important British site and a place of international importance and significance.

Radio Carbon 14 testing of the human bones shows a date of around AD 562 for the destruction of this great palace.

As King Arthur II was the King of Glamorgan, and certainly the Teyrn or Monarch of Britain, at that time this great ruined palace is the most likely site for the legendary Camelot.

The field is known as Caer Meade, and whether Caer Meade was 'Camelot' is a possibility.

The meaning of Meade is not clear but it may mean "a buffeting" or a "bashing", and certainly the 562 comet did that.