Recently, I was privileged enough to be loaned a mass of whorls from the site of Towton battlefield, scene of the bloodiest battle on British soil, on Palm Sunday, 1461, and I am in the process of studying them. Historian Simon Richardson is the only metal detectorist in the UK licensed to work on this site of deep historic significance. It has been a rare and interesting privilege to be able to look at these so ordinary domestic effects which strangely seem to litter the battle site, being found alongside the broken spurs and other more warlike finds.
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