
Digging Medieval Battlefields
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Is There a Leather Belt?
When we're looking at mediaeval battles, so no leather belts. Lots of english armour was held together with leather straps. Wasn'tit, i guess, would have all perished alongside that iron material and everything else? Exactly. Yes. People expect you to go on a battlefield and you'll find helmets or swords or whatever. But unless it's a tiny bit of one of those that's broken off, somehow things will be picked up. A sword line on the ground is still a useful object. And i guess to some extent, the sames true of arrows. You know, archers would recover their arrows from the battlefield if they were reusable - but sadly not.
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