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How do we know precisely where the battle of hastings took place? I remember visiting it on a school trip and being disappointed to see it's just a normal looking hill. The teachers pointed out spots where specific events of the battle took place; how can we know this with such accuracy?

I'm assuming the site was excavated at some point to find evidence of the battle - if it was, do you know when and what they found? It seems like an area that has been inhabited ever since so things would have been moved around in the 1000-ish years since the battle.

The 3d model is such a fun way to learn about historical artefacts - you can see so much more than in a museum even! Do you have more of these somewhere? I'd love to spend my quarantine time exploring a virtual museum.

Awesome, thanks

That would make sense since even if some of the action was at the top of the hill, there would still be lots of fighting at the bottom to protect the position on the hill. I'd imagine either way most of the archaeological evidence would end up at the bottom of the hill because gravity.

I'm guessing the reason we don't have these items of interest is that a town was built over it? Or maybe people just picked stuff up and moved it around before that happened?

Another question since you seem to know what you're talking about - what would they have done with the bodies of deceased soldiers? There must be a huge pile of bodies buried somewhere in Hastings unless the survivors managed to transport them