Flodden: An Ancient Landscape

Introduction Without a shadow of bias the landscape around the field of Flodden is one of beauty and of variety. This diversity of landscape and the underlying geology that underpins it is also woven through the fabric of the battle of Flodden, and not just the...

No gleam of gold, no lead-cored cannon-balls, no coins, brooches or buckles and no green-glazed medieval pottery. Just flints and more flints, mostly white - found memorably en-masse on one occasion during test pits into a mound but more often found as single flakes within the trenches or particularly...

Located between the rivers Tweed, Bowmont Water and Glen in northern Northumberland, the research area covered by the Flodden 500 Project’s archaeology programme has produced material indicating human activity over a period of nearly 10,000 years.

The corroded lump gave no clue at first. But as it was dipped in the water and the brush gently moved across its surface, bits of rust fell off and it revealed itself - it was the remains of a Roman brooch.