Friday, 30 March 2018

Fish Face Off (Post Brexit Fish no 5 & 6)

Imagine having eyes on the top of your head which can swivel and being able to swim like a fish. 
Oh, and being a fish.....(Dover Sole, Scottish Megrim)

Blood Roses -Battle of Towton, 1461


March 29th 1461, perhaps the bloodiest battle in English history took place during the War of the Roses on a bleak North Yorkshire plateaux. When Lancastrian arrows fell short, Yorkist longbow men send them back with the prevailing wind, to devastating effect. The Towton Battlefield Society runs walks of the site:  www.towton.org.uk/battlefield walks from the Rockingham pub at Towton....

Wednesday, 28 March 2018

Massive Medieval Village

A road upgrade between Cambridge and Huntingdon has uncovered a vast site with 6,000 years of history, including a medieval village, Iron Age henge monument, anglo saxon timber village and a Roman trade distribution centre......... see: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-43559369

Sunday, 25 March 2018

Mary Rose Yew Longbows (for Debbie Palmer)

In 1545 the Mary Rose sank to the mud in the bottom of the Solent, which preserved 140 yew longbows.... divers said they came out looking like they'd just been cut from the tree.......