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Nanteos - A Welsh House and its Families describes a claim in the 1960s guide to the Nanteos Mansion that German composer Richard Wagner stayed at Nanteos and was said to have been intrigued by the legend, which eventually inspired him to compose the Grail opera Parsifal. However, although the artistic dilettante George Powell probably met Wagner, there is no record of him visiting Nanteos.
The cup was included in a documentary broadcast on Channel 5 "The Search for the Holy Grail: The True Story". In the programme they concluded that the wood the cup is made from dates from at least 1400 years after the crucifixion. The Commissioner for Monuments in Wales examined the piece and said it was exactly the right size and shape to be a mazer bowl, a type of medieval vessel, that it was Wych Elm and it was from the 14th century. Similarly, in a 1998 BBC2 documentary Dr Juliette Wood of the Folklore Society confirmed that the "cup" was a wych elm mazer or food bowl, and not made of olive wood as might be expected for a cup. In a BBC4 documentary The Making of King Arthur, Simon Armitage interviews the cup's current owner, Fiona Mirylees, and examines the cup.
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