Battle of 1415 commemorated in exhibition that boasts battlefield model incorporating real mud and treasures from French national collectionsSome of the mud that helped give England a victory still illustrious after 600 years,has been incorporated in a spectacular model depicting the Battle of Agincourt, centrepiece of an anniversary exhibition at the Tower of London.
Along with spectacular loans including treasures from French national collections such as the Louvre and Army Museum, or curator Malcolm Mercer and his colleagues from the Royal Armouries brought back a plastic lunchbox filled with soil from the site.
“It has changed remarkably small, Mercer said, “it was a ploughed field then and it is a ploughed field now.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com