Another battlefield on the move .......

.......... after Jones' interpretation of Bosworth:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223119/Battle-Hastings-No-Battle-Caldbec-Hill-Real-site-1066-carnage-mile-away-claims-historian.html

I live only a few miles from Battle and the battlefield, and I can assure you it is in the right place on Senlac. The various finds and descriptions, far more than for Bosworth, also authenticate it. Then of course there is the unassailable evidence of William the Conqueror who built a church on the site of Harold's position and death. Did he build his church in the wrong place only a few years after the battle? I very much doubt it.
This may just be someone climbing on the Richard and Bosworth band wagon.
Paul

On 26 Oct 2012, at 17:22, Stephen Lark wrote:

> .......... after Jones' interpretation of Bosworth:
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223119/Battle-Hastings-No-Battle-Caldbec-Hill-Real-site-1066-carnage-mile-away-claims-historian.html
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Richard Liveth Yet!

If my memory serves me well, the High Altar was supposedly built on the site
of his death. Some of the references that he uses I believe are taken from
the Bayeux Tapestry which was purportedly made by the ladies waiting for
their men to come home and from descriptions on the battle coming back to
Normandy. It was commonplace as today to name a site after a nearby town
and Hastings was at that time one of the Cinque ports so would have been
the nearest town. Battle is approx. 9 miles inland from Hastings and a
relatively easy march.

Battle Abbey was ordered to be built By Pope Alexander II as penance in
1070 and consecrated in 1097 sometime after the battle in 1066 so the true
site could well be subject to error ( not unlike Bosworth or Agincourt)
Battlefields are complex environments and all plans change on engagement.
He could be correct, however only a substantial find would remove doubt or
speculation.

George



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I live only a few miles from Battle and the battlefield, and I can assure
you it is in the right place on Senlac. The various finds and descriptions,
far more than for Bosworth, also authenticate it. Then of course there is
the unassailable evidence of William the Conqueror who built a church on the
site of Harold's position and death. Did he build his church in the wrong
place only a few years after the battle? I very much doubt it.
This may just be someone climbing on the Richard and Bosworth band wagon.
Paul

On 26 Oct 2012, at 17:22, Stephen Lark wrote:

> .......... after Jones' interpretation of Bosworth:
>
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223119/Battle-Hastings-No-Battle-Ca
ldbec-Hill-Real-site-1066-carnage-mile-away-claims-historian.html
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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Richard Liveth Yet!