Dacre's Cross

[poliphilo]

This cross, erected in 1928, is a monument to the dead of the Battle of Towton. The cross head is medieval and may come from the chapel that Richard III erected as an earlier memorial.

Comments

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Like watching a bullfight, isn't it? Difficult to know which side to root for.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Exactly. York and Lancaster were like street gangs- equally unlovely- though I admit to a certain tenderness for that much maligned man, Richard III.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Why Richard? Because he may have been falsely accused?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes. The Tudor's monstered him. The evidence suggests that- as medieval warlords go- he was a fairly decent bloke.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Indeed.