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Anyone find it weird that we simply don't know where some significant historically documented battles took place.

Like Boudicea's final stand is somewhere near the London part of Watling street (a street that extends from Dover to Wroxeter via St Albans), with 80 000 losses, and we've just... never found the bones.

Same with the Battle of Stamford Bridge, where we know 8000 people died (including Harald Hardrada) somewhere in the Derwent River, but no bridge or bones found.

We know these events happened from written record, but the physicality of it just isn't present.

I don't know what I'm really trying to say other than that I feel there's a weird disconnect to a past that existed.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My home town is famous for having a copy of the Bayeux Tapestry, which of course depicts another famous battle in our history but I wasn't aware of this battle in the English Civil War not far away in Newbury: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1904/first-battle-of-newbury/

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm late to the party, but speaking of the Bayeux Tapestry, modern archeology has never found any convincing evidence of the Battle of Hastings either, despite the battleground being fairly well historically indicated. It's even led to speculation -- generally dismissed by scholars -- that the battle didn't happen near the site of the abbey that was meant to have been constructed on be spot.