إعتقد المؤرّخون أنّ قدرة الجهاز تكمن في الإخفاء لأنهم لم يفهموه عزوا الأمر إلى (آرثر) احتراماً للملك في تلك الفترة
Medieval historians could well have attributed the powers of the device to a cloak, simply because they didn't understand it, and they could have credited its recovery to Arthur, out of deference to the king who was in power at the time.