In January I reported that, on the 948th anniversary of the Battle of
Hastings, a scan was carried out at Waltham Abbey in Essex looking
for evidence to re-write the history books and help prove that Harold
Godwinson (Harold II) had survived the battle.
The Norman Story
Novelist and amateur historian Peter Burke had asserted that Harold
recovered from his wounds of the battle and lived for another 40
years. This theory being based on an early 12th Century document,
Vita Harold, that is stored in the British Library.
The scan was carried out by the same team who, 2 years ago, helped to locate the
remains of Richard III that were buried under a car park in Leicester, and
which were reburied at Leicester Cathedral on Thursday.
Peter Burke has now got back to me and, in his own
words, “the scan was positive”. He is having a meeting with the
head of English Heritage on Tuesday, to request permission to dig at
the abbey.
Any further discovery may, or may not, support Peter's theory, or may
even create further questions, we await developments...
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