Towton Hall

Roughly 40 of them, killed in combat, ended up in a single mass grave.

In July of 1996, a construction company preparing to build a new garage at Towton Hall, a mansion near the eponymous village, discovered a substantial quantity of human bones.

They immediately called in an archaeologist who determined several things.

First, that the remains weren't recent.

He's been linked with the story of Towton for almost two decades.

It all began in 1996 when he was called in after developers working at Towton Hall made a grizzly discovery.

We were very fortunate in Towton in that when a building was, uh, being replaced, they dug new foundations and they dug deep enough to actually uncover human remains.

The builders had discovered the last resting place of some of the Towton dead, the only mass grave from a medieval battle yet found in Britain.

We've looked everywhere else.

So if it's not here, then there's gonna be no trace of it.

The area Tim's now focusing on is within the grounds of Towton Hall itself, known as Chapel Garth.

It's worth a try.