16 AUGUST 1969, Page 11

Camelot Arms

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS

`We've hit on the base of a tower in each of our cuttings. There is a car-park near the foot of the hill and the village of South Cadbury has a pub. Quoted in the Obser- ver's report on the Camelot excavations.

The Dons assured us it was rot About the 'towers at Camelot'.

They said that clearly Malory Was playing to the gallery And Tennyson, who mocked it up, Had patently been sold a pup.

Now Leslie Alcock's diggings show That after all it wasn't so, And Cadbury's Arthur-type of camp Had towers galore at every ramp.

And what is more— and here's the rub—

They even keep a village pub, And tourists who frequent the bar Can find a place to park their car.