Preserving the Battle of Hastings from 'contamination'
Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 09:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The Battle of Hastings is regularly fought all over again by enthusiastic re-enactors, before large crowds of spectators. The problem is that they are depositing material that could compromise the archaeology of the historic site. But now one of the world's leading battlefield archaeologists is developing a unique project designed to unearth whatever genuine material survives from 1066.