Towton, the Bloodiest Day

The account

In a Palm Sunday snowstorm, the largest, bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil, perhaps 28,000 dead in a day. A grave of fifty men, every skull cloven, came up during building work, and detectorists have mapped the field's arrowheads and two fragments of the oldest battlefield guns ever found in England.

Leads, where the trail points now

• The field is at Towton, North Yorkshire, England, and arms, shot, and relics still come out of the ground there.
• Detecting or digging needs landowner or park permission, and any significant find should be recorded; many battlefields are protected.
• Work the documented account of Towton, the Bloodiest Day to learn where the fighting, the camps, and the rout actually ran before you look.