Elizabeth Peters’ novel The Camelot Caper , published in 1969 when the excavations at South Cadbury were in progress, offers a clever pastiche of Gothic novels, set partly at Glastonbury and South Cadbury. The protagonists face potential dangers on every hand but suffer little from them, and the narrator even characterizes a chase scene set in the Glastonbury ruins as a ‘merry romp.’ The climax of the narrative features an episode that inverts the imagery of the Cadbury excavations as the villains dig in order to place objects into the ground.