The monks at Glastonbury Abbey, which along with the town has been ravaged by fire dig up the coffin and find two skeletons. Henry Plantagenet is keen to have the legendary Dark Age hero Arthur buried in a grave, where his presence will take away hope from the Welsh rebels and also create a pilgrimage centre to rival Canterbury. March 1176: Henry II suppresses a Welsh rebellion and after intervention by his mother the bard Rhys ransoms himself with the tale of what occurred that night in Glastonbury. Does the coffin contain the dead King Arthur, whom legend says still sleeps in the surrounding hills awaiting a call to arms from his Celtic subjects? Brother Caradoc tells what he has seen to his nephew the Welsh bard, Rhys. Glastonbury 1154: an earthquake has struck the Abbey and the dying Brother Caradoc sees three people carrying a coffin and lowering it into a fissure that has opened in the ground. Review - Relics of the Dead by Ariana Franklin
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