A CAVE in the south of the county was used as a filming location for the latest film by Guy Ritchie.

King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword was released in cinemas in May and many may have spotted a county location.

Film crews shot footage at King Arthur’s cave in the Doward, near Symonds Yat, for two days back in March and April 2015.

The scene was an encampment with dead bodies strung from the trees at one point.

Film crews also used the site as their base for three or four more days while they filmed on the Doward.

The Herefordshire Wildlife Trust has a nature reserve which runs up to the cave, and also reserves across the Doward landscape.

King Arthur’s Cave is a void in a mass of carboniferous limestone.

Frances Weeks, communications officer for the trust, said: "Though the specific historical significance of King Arthur’s Cave is unknown, through a jumbled Dark Ages translation, an older form of “Doward” can be loosely linked with the name "Arthur" (Deu Arth), which probably explains why this cave is reputed to be (along with hundreds of other British localities!) where King Arthur lies sleeping.

"More interesting perhaps, or at least more factual, is solid evidence that the cave served as a shelter all the way back to neolithic times. Remnants of such occupants as giant elk, mammoths, woolly rhino, horse, cave bear and lions have been discovered there, along with flints used by hunters of the paleolithic and mesolithic eras. These people were the first of many to enjoy the security of this cave, whose ‘cosy’ recesses extend into the depths of the ancient hill."