Bosworth, where Richard copped several bad blows to the head, torso, arms, legs and spleen. He apparently fell where the trees are.
THE last stand of Richard the Third has apparently been almost totally certainly possibly located.
Dick3, as some called him behind his hunched back, is the kind of guy every douche admires. Kill a guy, marry his missus, have your brother killed off, have a couple of kids knifed and STILL get all the good lines … There’s the inevitable day of retribution, but remember this is fictionalised truthalisation. These days he’d probably get a book deal, mini series and directorship on a minor government monopoly.
Anyway, the Guardian (February 19, 2010) reports:
“Archaeologists … have located not just the site of the Battle of Bosworth, but the spot where – on 22 August 1485 – Richard III became the last English king to die in battle when he was cut down by Tudor swords.
“Nearby Henry Tudor was crowned Henry VII, with the crown which had tumbled from the dying Richard’s head.
“The crucial evidence, including badges of the supporters of both kings, sword mounts, coins and 28 cannonballs, was found in fields straddling Fen Lane in the Leicestershire parish of Upton, where no historian had looked before.”
The farm belongs to the farmingly-well named Alf Oliver and the key find was a silver boar.
The History Blog says the boar no bigger than a thumbnail, is battered but still snarling in rage after 500 years.
“It was found on the edge of a field still called Fen Hole, which in medieval times was a marsh that played a crucial role in the battle, protecting the flank of Henry Tudor’s much smaller army. The marsh was drained centuries ago, but Oliver said it still gets boggy in very wet summers.
After a charge in which Richard came within almost a sword’s reach of Henry, he lost his horse in the marsh, a moment immortalised in the despairing cry Shakespeare bestowed upon him: “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”
“The fact that this little boar is Richard’s personal emblem, and made in silver gilt, means that it can only have been given to one of the closest members of his retinue. The man who wore this would have fought and died at Richard’s side.”
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