A report from English Heritage tomorrow will warn that Towton, along with one in five of the sites on the Register of Historic Battlefields, is regarded as at risk by experts. In most cases the threat is of development; at Towton, where the slaughter of Lancastrians led to the Yorkist Edward IV being crowned in Westminster Abbey, the threat is metal detectors stripping history from the soil, the buckles, strap ends, cap badges, scraps of armour and arrow heads which map the arc of the battle.
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