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Digging Medieval Battlefields

Dan Snow's History Hit

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Do You Ever Find That Kind of Local Legend?

You sometimes find that there is knowledge there that hasn't ever been written down. You always have to treat local stories with a bit of a pinch of salt. There's gone of a certain amount of preparation, but then it's suck it and see once you actually get out into the field. Ut there are often reports as well ofo in the victorian periods, some workmen found a load of bodies while they were digging this pond,. And you go or that, near where we think the battle might be. But of course,once you start delving into it, you can never track down what happened to the stuff that they found.

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