Hidden Britain AtlasOpen the map
All places › Unexplained
Unexplained

The Nanteos Cup

Nanteos, near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion

A battered wooden bowl said to be the Holy Grail.

The Nanteos Cup is a worn wooden bowl that legend links to the Holy Grail, saying monks from Strata Florida brought it to Nanteos mansion. For centuries people drank from it hoping for cures, and some nibbled bits of the rim.

Read the full story, see it on the map, get directions and find what else is nearby in the free Hidden Britain Atlas map.

Open The Nanteos Cup on the mapReport a sighting here
When
Medieval
Where
52.3900, -4.0300
Group
Unexplained

Visiting

The cup is now kept at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

Buy on AmazonAll books by Cale Mills

Nearby mysteries