{"id":2770,"date":"2010-02-19T12:12:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T16:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2012-08-31T07:44:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T12:44:12","slug":"bosworth-field-real-location-now-made-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/19\/bosworth-field-real-location-now-made-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosworth Field, real location now made public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned back in <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/31\/bosworth-field-located-finally\/\" target=\"_blank\">October<\/a>, archaeologists have located the actual site of the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. Now that they&#8217;ve had time to do more research and examination, they&#8217;ve gone public with the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/leicestershire\/8523386.stm\" target=\"_blank\">location<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/BosworthField_actual_location.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BosworthField_actual_location\" width=\"466\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/BosworthField_actual_location.jpg 466w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/BosworthField_actual_location-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The true site of one of the most decisive battles in English history has been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Bosworth, fought in 1485, which saw the death of Richard III, was believed to have taken place on Ambion Hill, near Sutton Cheney in Leicestershire.<\/p>\n<p>But a study of original documents and archaeological survey of the area has now pinpointed a site in fields more than a mile to the south west.<\/p>\n<p>A new trail will lead from the current visitor centre to the new location. <\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>The original announcement was made in October but the exact location was kept a secret until now to protect it from treasure hunters.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers also believe they have identified the medieval marsh where Richard III was dragged from his horse and killed. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned back in October, archaeologists have located the actual site of the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. Now that they&#8217;ve had time to do more research and examination, they&#8217;ve gone public with the location: The true site of one of the most decisive battles in English history has been revealed. Bosworth, fought [&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":[288,570,771],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","tag-archaeology","tag-england","tag-richardiii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-IG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","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=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16710,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions\/16710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}