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I have been fighting for the true location of the battle of Brunanburh 937 where King Athelstan confirmed for the 3rd time he was Rex Totius Britanniae, that means he was the 1st king of all of Britain. The Romans built walls in northern Britain at Hadrians wall and Antonines wall, which is a testament of their failure in uniting this Island under 1 ruler. The battle site is in the Wirral at modern day Bromborough. The establishment don’t want to recognise that King Athelstan was part of final culmination of creating a Country that became Ængland, but the establishment don’t want him to be recognised as Rex Totius Britanniae, when he proved 3 times as King, that he had United this Island under his rule. Athelstan is the final part of our Country having founding Fathers and those founding Fathers are King Alfred, who first gave the idea of a United Kingdom of the disparate tribes of the Anglo-Saxons, then came Alfred’s eldest Son Edward the Elder and Edward’s sister Æthelflead, also known as the lady of the Mercians, so between these 4 great leaders they are England/Britain’s founding Fathers. One day King Athelstan will be remembered as a Great line his Grand Father, because he went beyond everything that his Grand Father could imagine, he not only became the first Ji g to unite all the Anglo-Saxons into one Nation called England, but as I previously stated he most definitely United this whole Island under his rule. My message to you Nick, is never surrender, keep fighting for what you believe is right and listening to your interpretation of the Bayeux Tapestry makes the hair on the back of neck stand up. Literally your whole interpretation of the Battle of Hastings is the work of an absolute genius.

I spent some months re-pointing the perimeter walls round Battle Abbey. In places I could put my arm through and just touch the wall at the other side. The ruined Abbey was a quiet, contemplative place early in a morning with mist coming up from the battlefield and swirling among the old stones.

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Would have been a good ractic to fight the normans on the roundabout. They would have been confused by traffic coming from the right

I investigated the battle in detail for my book, 'Gateway to Gandamak' (Amazon). I came at it as a former soldier but not a professional historian. However, my career as an engineer makes me acutely aware of topography and the physical conditions that constrained the fighting. It soon became obvious that the English Heritage site was all wrong. Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of the Crowhurst theory. But it makes a lot of sense. And FWIW, I believe the Normans only won because the English walked off after Harold died. William got a very bloody nose last thing at the Malfosse. A counterattack would have smashed him. Rather, the English saw no more point absent the Godwins. Fascinating stuff. Thanks for this, keep it up.

I visited the Battle Abbey sight in 2001 and was struck by the absence of any feeling of great events having transpired there, having been assured that a momentous and bloody battle took place. I was surprised by your research as I had assumed the events were solidly settled. However inspired me to visited Crowhurst with friends, in the year of the lesser pestilence MMXX, and the feeling is very different, so much so that we became convinced that bloodshed on a big scale occurred at that place, something subsequent findings have vindicated.

It's interesting work, a pity we never hear anymore. If the theory is correct that Willaim's camp was at Upper Wilting Farm (41m above sea level (asl)), then the nearest elevated contour is at Swainham Lane to the north of Whitefield Wood, at 73m asl.

14,000 men on one battlefield and yet not one body has ever been found!! You all, are looking in the wrong place!!!

Fantastic production thank you so much for this mate

I saw his previous «archeological » effort, Time Team has more credibility in their little finger and I will never recover the time I lost watching Austin’s previous waste of time. This site will be eliminated from my sites of interest

Tile kiln?

We never did get to see the results of Nick's ground radar at Crowhurst. Why?

One might think, the Battle of Hastings would be #1 on the list of any historian / Archeologist in England. Why has this not been shown?

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This was 10yrs ago, what happened to the follow up video????

Still no evidence at all, battle happened at Crowhurst. Topography of 1066, does show battle probably took place at site of abbey. Do agree with landing at Bulverhythe though

get someone in who knows how to dig.

It doesn't look very robust, I want to believe but I doubt if anyone would have gone into battle with that on their head.

Hi, at the start of the video you say you have had some interesting finds from the upper fort area, can you show them or tell us what they are? In all they's videos from Sotni UK I have not seen any 11th century finds.

This channel has gone awfully quiet is there any development?

Your story fits the landscape but there are no finds and no body's, I'd like to accept it but without the finds its too long a shot.

Well worth following up with futher research. Good luck with fundraising to accumulate further evidence, you will need it. Old theories die hard. take care rwmccoy

I've watched your video's on here and I must admit your story of events matches Crowhurst. But where is your hard evidence? From what I've watched you havn't found so much as a belt buckle let alone any of the battle dead?

the level of archaeology skills on show here is very impressive!!!! lol

Funny to check that no matter where you go, "our thing is the most important thing in the world". There have been other battles at least as important as Hastings, madam. Let's say Poitiers in 732 or in the case of Spain, simply because I'm Spanish, take the battle of Guadalete (711) (a kind of Hastings but worse so 8 centuries of Muslim domination came) or Navas de Tolosa (1212) In any case, I'm fascinated by the battle of Hastings and the findings by Austen. We should always keep a close eye on official history. 14:31

I’m convinced by the BT that Norman foot soldiers landed at Pevensey and the knights disembarked at Little Standard Hill. Also Will the Conk transferred to where Hastings town centre is today. To commemorate the landing they built a priory sometime between 1189 and 1199 ( sort of “blue plaque” of the day). But the so called “Old Town” dates from the 1080’s when they built the castle on the East Hill. To my mind English Heritage is correct in placing an encounter at the far end of the High Street to the Abbey but the main battle took place out at Ashburnham Wood ( that’s what the place was called on 1833 tithe map)

It is an interesting theory, one that has been argued about for years. Good food for thought.

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I think you have a very good perspective , into where the true landing are,I'm thinking about how the landing happened ,i mean how many ships did he have ,were lead to believe he had over 1 thousand and many were constructed, the year before the battle ,this find hard to believe as the massive felling of trees and raw materials would have been collosal,think he had much less ships than we think.I don't believe the landing were a one off use of these boats, think they would have been used for relays across the channel to open a supply line, they were clean line Viking ships, I think we very much underestimate these vessels,I believe under oar they could easily reach there hull speed ,and could point to windward better than we give them credit for. william was waiting for a southerly wind ,now to my mind as a fisherman sailor ,a light northerly would be much more an advantage as gives calm waters without swell on the coast of Hastings,maybe a southerly wind means blowing from the north towards the south,this is just food for thought but I find I hard to believe he would have a huge fleet for just one crossing ,

Why aren't you guys continuing with your quest. I think you're onto something. Recruit more folk to help you.

One issue I have, Nick claims there’s been no evidence dug up here, but this is precisely where they found the broke ax head. It’s in line with the road. You look at the LIDAR images and it’s pretty compelling. Also, Malfosse may just refer to drop off or edge where a bunch of men were killed. The topography has undoubtedly changed but there is a considerable drop off on the northern bank of this approach. I think that if this road and this approach (where those homes and shops are) was thoroughly looked at, you’d find more. I just can’t take Nick seriously after he put out that video stating the ring he found may be William the Conquerors helmet. He also claims the the ruins in Crowhurst may be the original abbey but that manor house and the foundation ruins themselves date no earlier than 1250. Crowhurst is out. There’s just not enough there and his evidence falls to pieces under the shallowest of examinations. There’s a reason more hasn’t been put into the Crowhurst theory and, I’m sorry, English Heritage wanting to maintain their original site just isn’t one of them. If anything they’d have more incentive to find new sites to monetize. I firmly believe we can agree that the eastern approach to battle is a good candidate. It’s my opinion that the battle took place somewhere between it and Calbec Hill. I’m not willing to say anymore than that for sure. Nick seems to take the AS Chronicle and Poitiers work and suffers some serious confirmation bias by making clues fit Crowhurst. It’s as if he’s staked his reputation on this thing. The bucket rings certainly haven’t helped his case though.

You are looking at one of the landing sites near crowhurst, William landed his army in other places aswell, in all battle terms Harold would have been on high ground, you seriously have to look at the high ground, it's literally 7 miles from crowhurst to the old st helens Church at ore, even the area in ore called RED LAKE is called so because of the stream that runs red there. Also near old st helens Church you will find THE HOLY WELL . St helens woods ,

A whole chunk of history ignored by academics

I think that there's a possibility that when they said they landed 'at' Pevensey, they meant to say 'in sight of' Pevensey. Nobody with the hope of securing a landing would have disembarked at the site of an already standing and defensible fortification.

But I am..

Sure they have departments for investigating ancient historical sites just as they have departments for preventing illegal immigration.

If you use the time portal function of Google Earth, take a look at the 'decoy field' through the years. In one of the satellite images, there is the clear outline of what we would think of as a medieval fort, oriented to the cardinal points and with some sort of defensive emplacement at each corner. I think you would benefit most from the acquisition of a drone and a high quality LiDAR unit. With such equipment, you'll be able to scan the geographical topography and strip away all buildings and trees to show every natural or man-made hill or furrow. This would even let you print out maps with a 3D printer to help give new perspectives on previously hidden landmarks.

Personally nick you should also study the ridge and ore, in ore there's the area red lake called so because the spring water runs red orange colour, also the old St helens Church was constructed in approximately 1100. Its situated at St helens Wood, a Hurst basically means a wood, personally I think William landed near crowhurst where you say, but I get the feeling he approached Harold from 2 flanks on the same Rd, the ridge, one going from the bulverhythe across and up old London Rd, the other from roughly crowhurst along the ridge in order to hem Harold in at ore. Why hasn't anyone bought up the fact that when houses were built at red lake at ore in 1980, they discovered loads of old skeletal remains in abundance there, it can't have been a normal graveyard because the numbers massively exeeded the local population at the time. I keep an open mind on the matter but there's definitely a link somehow between red lake at ore and old St helens Church & woods, crowhurst has a link aswell.

You need to return with a drone. I have a small one, very sharp video, can hover, look down, go up to 400ft etc.

What about Caldbec Hill as the site? Steep hill, Norman knights couldn't make a full charge etc.

I always found it a little.odd that William hung around Hastings waiting for Harold to walk down from Yorkshire

Did you ever get the helmet rings tested or dated to confirm?, after the time team bucket theory

Ever did a Geophysical Investigation inside the Abbey in Crowhurst?

In the early hours of September 3rd 2015 I was in Abu dabi International airport. I had just got off a plane from, Manchester, talking to some Kiwis they told me excitedly that about 4 days previously they had been to the site of the Battle Of Hastings and seen Battle Abbey. Well I am pretty sure they will have to rewrite the history books. And those NewZealanders will have to come back to blighty again to see the proper site, not the fake one for tourists - Sorry! This guy is spot on. Well done Nick Austin!

Hold the camera steady and I might watch it

I have been an archaeologist since the age of 10 and dug with Salisbury Museum for years, also a Historian and an ecclesiastical (church buildings) man. This is very impressive, it all fits. End of story, sorted.

Unfortunately this is not the site where the battle took place. You're over looking one major geological issue regarding the battlefield site you've stated. The advancement of the Normans from your stated location along 'the plain' would not have been possible back in 1066 as 'the plain' was a river valley! This is the reason why this is a 'level ground'. The sea inlet at Bulverhythe reached through Combe Valley stretching up to and through the cricket ground at Crowhurst then reaching further through 'the plain' then streaming south along the manor house embankment then branches off westward with waters extending up the ' malfosse'. So really the area you've marked out as the Saxon defence line would of been a pointless act for Harold, facing meters from a river bank and the 'malfosse' to the left....no battle would of even taken place! I'm not saying the battle never took place within Crowhurst but just not in the area you've stated. Hope this helps with further investigations and finding the real battlefield site. Don't give up and good luck!

you should do a vid walking the battlefield from starting line to finish

It is now July 2022. This film was made over eight years ago. Has Mr Austin found any more evidence since then?