aelfheah Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Is this info relevant- a pic and grid referenced OS map? "Footbridge over railway at Handsworth" http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/167326 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huscarl Posted May 23, 2011 Author Share Posted May 23, 2011 Thanks. The region has changed beyond recognition since Michael filmed that episode. He'd be hard-pressed to even nearly land a helicopter now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electerrific Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Hmm, I'd be interested to know if the high ground featured in Michael's TV series has since been levelled by the old Airport road? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xenia Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 The earlier reference to a Roman Camp and a River nearby could relate to Wincobank Hill and the Don. That places the battle a few miles to the north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Barrel Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Hmm, I'd be interested to know if the high ground featured in Michael's TV series has since been levelled by the old Airport road? Do you go metal detecting ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electerrific Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Do you go metal detecting ? No, but it set my curiosity going. Xenia, many people insist upon the Bromborough (Lancashire), Dingsmere (Mersey) or Burnswark (near Scotland) sites, but I agree with Michael Wood with Catcliffe/Brinsworth (well, he used to believe in this site- he now proposes the Vale of York). The geography here is correct according to the description by Egil Skallagrimmson, the Icelandic warrior-poet who fought for Athelstan, and later chroniclers such as Symeon of Durham and John of Worcester state that the Viking fleet (from Dublin) sailed into the Humber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electerrific Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 This was the apparently part of the original Anglo-Saxon Tinsley (Tingas Leah) Wood, now buried by the airport link (?) as filmed by Wood's crew in 1980 in the Brunanburh section of the 'Athelstan' episode. https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1497110_265047396991885_1350820120_n.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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