1066 battlefield threatened with development

Most school pupils have heard of one of the battles fought in England in 1066, at Hastings, and a fair number know about the great engagement at Stamford Bridge near York.

But historians are now engaged in a last ditch fight of their own to spotlight the third great clash of that year, whose forgotten battlefield is threatened with obliteration by 700 new homes.

Rival planners meet this week in York to settle the fate of land in the suburb of Fulford where, in September 1066, "streams of blood flowed over the plain", according to Snorri Sturlsson's Heimskringla, the chronicle of the kings of Norway.

Read the rest in the Guardian. This doesn't appear to be an open-and-shut case, since the location of the battle is not entirely certain.

Posted by David on May 24, 2005 8:15 PM