The War of the Roses – battlefield detail.
http://www.economist.com/node/17722650?story_id=17722650
Overkill?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/20/martello-tower-conversion
History
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Footnote.
The story of the Towton skeletons and, at the very end, the analysis of possible reasons for extensive and repeated head injuries, was very interesting. I shuddered at the mental image of how the poleaxe could be used in the hand of an experienced killer. The skull, imagined with brains and blood and skin and eyeballs, was bad enough. TMI.
The other article, about the tower conversion to a home, had this sentence at the very end: Best of all is the fact that the tower remains very much itself, and very much as it always was, seen either from the coastal path – or from a ship on the waves, through a captain’s spyglass. I imagine that the Historical Monuments people required that the exterior view remain unchanged, no matter the interior construction, and the cost must have been phenomenal to make it sturdy and beautiful on the inside, while maintaining the outside view untouched.