Historian Locates Brunanburh Battlefield

Read quite a few of his books over the years, so I'm inclined to believe him.
"A TV historian believes he may have discovered the real location of the Battle of Brunanburh on a humble lay-by off the A1.
The battle is long believed to have saved England from Viking invaders over 1,000 years ago.
It pitted a West Saxon army against a combined hoard of Vikings, Scots and Irish in 937, and was one of the most decisive events in British medieval history.
Had King Athelstan - grandson of Alfred the Great - been defeated it would have been the end of Anglo-Saxon England.
But upon victory, Britain was created for the first time and Athelstan became the de facto King of all Britain, the first in history.
Despite the legendary battle's significance, mystery has surrounded its true location for over 1,000 years, with more than 30 locations proposed across England.
A consensus emerged that the battle took place in Bromborough on the Wirral, Merseyside, but TV historian Professor Michael Wood is convinced it actually unfolded 100 miles away in South Yorkshire.
He believes the epicentre of the battle was Robin's Hood Well near the quaint village of Burghwallis, about seven miles north of Doncaster and has a population of just 300 people.
The monument was originally on the route of the A1 but was moved a few hundred yards south in the 1960s when the road was expanded into a dual carriageway.
Professor Wood, who has presented documentaries about early medieval British history for the BBC, said a battle site on the main route from York down into England's Danish heartland in Mercia is a far more likely location for the battle.
He said: 'The evidence clearly points to the Battle of Brunanburh taking place in the region south of York which was the centre of conflict between the Northumbrians and the West Saxon kings during the second quarter of the 10th century.'"
Location of the Battle of Brunanburh is pinpointed | Daily Mail Online