Here are further news on the research carried out to establish where exactly the Battle of Bosworth was fought (for our previous article please click here).  

Ben Hoyle of the British Times reports that Glenn Foard, a battlefield archaeologist who has led the investigation into the whereabouts of the fighting, is convinced that he has unearthed the proof.  The interesting bit about this proof is that  Mr Foard’s team has discovered more lead artillery shot at Bosworth than has so far been recovered from all the other 15th-century and 16th-century battlefields in Europe put together.  Abandoned cannonballs and bullets are of special interest to battlefield archaeologists because they are made of lead like the ones at Bosworth and decay far less quickly than iron and steel handweapons.  According to Steve Walton, a specialist in medieval artillery at Pennsylvania State University, the use at Bosworth predates by ten years the earliest hard evidence for cannon used as mobile battlefield weapons, as opposed to on board ships, in garrisons or for long-term sieges. Read the rest of this entry »

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