Yesterday I saw the largest collection of medieval artillery shot found on a battlefield in Europe. Amazingly, it was found right here in Leicestershire, at Bosworth. But even Richard III's guns, ranging from hand guns to cannon, weren't able to save him from Henry Tudor. Oddly, the announcement about these lead balls was overshadowed by various comments about how it meant the battle wasn't where we thought it was. It's kind of sad that the news that was supposed to be the big news has hardly made the news at all.

I mean, no-one knows where the battle took place, apart from it happened somewhere near Dadlington. That the finds were recovered only 2 miles away from the Battlefield Centre means it was pretty well located, all things considered. And they still don't know exactly where the battle took place. The evidence of artillery might show where the rout happened, but battles are big things. Unfortunately for the project (a project that only took place because no-one knew where the battle happened!) it's hard to locate 2 hours of history that took place over 500 years ago...

In other news, we went to Southend for the weekend for my mum's birthday. Had a good time, though my dad's not particularly well.

posted by Fiery Fred @ 10:52 PM