
Digging Medieval Battlefields
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Battle of Barnet
We were looking at multiple possible areas, but they're all very much near by one another. The big red line that's drawn around the hadley green area as the registered battlefield at present is not a hundred per cent convinced by it. So we're not talking a million miles away, but just topographically, probably somewhere slightly different. And i guess part of the problem as well is that mediaeval battles could spread out over the landscape,. over those several square miles, in a big battle. Yes, absolutely. We know with barnet, cause of the misalignment of armies, the whole thing sort of twisted as well, you know. You have the two armies almost pirou
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