Tag: war
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Fire on the Hills: how fast could the Armada beacons carry the news?
I traced the lines of sight between 193 hills named for a beacon and lit a fire at the Lizard. On the names alone it never leaves Cornwall; fill the gaps and it reaches London in 9 hops.
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The Conquest in Castles
I mapped 3,288 Norman-type castle sites across Britain. Only 113 carry a date from 1066 to 1199, and they show a castle frontier that leapt across England within a few years of Hastings.
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Where Was the Battle? The lost battlefields of early Britain
I gathered 88 proposed sites for 18 lost battles of early Britain and tested each against what the texts actually say. Camlann’s theories are 679 km apart; Whalley’s fit inside 3.5 km.
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Bloody Place Names: do Britain’s battle names mark real battles?
I measured 756 grim place names on the OS map, from Battle to Gallows Hill, against 507 recorded battles and sieges. Only Battle names reliably mark a battlefield; most of the rest are red herrings, and the Slaughters mean wet land.
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Whose ships sank where?
Two centuries of shipwrecks in Europe’s seas, from Wikipedia’s lists: 106,550 wrecks placed on the map by the flag they sailed under. British ships dominate the record, but the Bay of Biscay, the Baltic, the Mediterranean and the world wars tell other stories.
