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  • The Battle of Towton :Nasty, brutish and not that short

    12/29/2010 5:00:36 PM PST · by worst-case scenario · 25 replies · 9+ views
    The Economist ^ | Dec 16 2010
    Medieval warfare was just as terrifying as you might imagine. THE soldier now known as Towton 25 had survived battle before. A healed skull fracture points to previous engagements. He was old enough—somewhere between 36 and 45 when he died—to have gained plenty of experience of fighting. But on March 29th 1461, his luck ran out. Towton 25 suffered eight wounds to his head that day. The precise order can be worked out from the direction of fractures on his skull: when bone breaks, the cracks veer towards existing areas of weakness. The first five blows were delivered by a...