{"id":1681,"date":"2009-10-31T00:06:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T04:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2011-12-23T12:28:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T17:28:33","slug":"bosworth-field-located-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/31\/bosworth-field-located-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosworth Field located, finally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be surprising, but the actual location of Bosworth Field, &#8220;one of the four most important battles in English history&#8221; was only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/article6894702.ece\" target=\"_blank\">definitely identifed<\/a> this year:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Just after midday yesterday, Glenn Foard stood on Ambion Hill in Leicestershire, next to the award-winning Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, pointed at the distant church spire of Stoke Golding and declared an end to 500 years of arguments over the location.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s over there, two miles away,\u201d he said, beyond and below the church, off to the right a bit and spread over 250 acres of what is now flat farmland, crisscrossed by hedgerows, pasture and autumnal trees. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Foard, a battlefield archaeologist who has led a four-year, \u00a31.3 million investigation into the whereabouts of the fighting, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Leicestershire County Council, is convinced that he has unearthed the proof.<\/p>\n<p>In an unexpected and thrilling development for the archaeologists, that proof is in the form of 22 lead cannon and musket balls that dramatically reshape thinking about late medieval combat. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be surprising, but the actual location of Bosworth Field, &#8220;one of the four most important battles in English history&#8221; was only definitely identifed this year: Just after midday yesterday, Glenn Foard stood on Ambion Hill in Leicestershire, next to the award-winning Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, pointed at the distant church spire of Stoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[288,771],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","tag-archaeology","tag-richardiii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-r7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12736,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/12736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}