Tewkesbury, Ripple Field and Soppa's Hill Fort

[carojon]

Mr Steve and I managed to get in another battlefield walk last month before current UK restrictions on movement took effect.



Enjoying a day of glorious weather we travelled to Gloucestershire to follow the events in the area of 1471, 1643 and even the dark ages.



If you would like to know more about our day then just follow the link to JJ's

https://jjwargames.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-battlefields-of-tewkesbury-1471.html

JJ

[Captain Blood]

Fabulous write up of the Tewkesbury battlefield, thank you.

Very interested to see that the hedges would likely have been there at the time!

[carojon]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed the read.

Yes the analysis of which hedges were likely present on the day compensates somewhat for the lack of any quantity of archaeological finds to pin down where exactly the fighting was going on.

The recent Waterloo excavations and metal detecting searches have really added to the knowledge of where the French were pressing their attacks at Hougomont for example, and as I mentioned in the post similar work at Bosworth and Edgehill has really changed our understanding of those battle to, previously primarily understood from the often limited or contradictory sources.

JJ