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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7637520, member: 110504&quot;][USER=74712]@FitzNigel[/USER], the other mint North lists (right, 897; back to 1994 --who knows what detectorists have turned up since then?) is Norwich. ...But I&#039;ll bet you got back to North by now.</p><p>Linclon is indeed key to the whole war.&nbsp; The battle there (1141) is where Stephen was taken prisoner by Matilda.&nbsp; Here&#039;s Matthew Paris&#039;s rendering of an episode just prior to the battle, from about a century later.&nbsp; Stephen is addressing Baldwin FitzGilbert, younger brother of Richard &#039;Strongbow,&#039; Earl of Pembroke (who later initiated the Anglo-Norman /Angevin invasion of eastern Ireland), on the hill with the axe.&nbsp; Stephen is asking Baldwin to address the troops on his behalf, since Baldwin apparently had the stronger speaking voice.&nbsp; (The only secondary source I have that mentions Baldwin at all --and likely the best of the lot-- is Crouch (2000).&nbsp; Matthew Paris includes a soldier with the chevrons of the Clare earls of Pembroke, Clare and Hertford.&nbsp; (This time Matthew isn&#039;t committing an anachronism: the Clares were early proponents of heraldry.)</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/BattleOf_Lincoln.jpg/800px-BattleOf_Lincoln.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>And, sure, here&#039;s my c. mid-late 10th c. Norman immobilization of Charles le Chauve of Bayeux (Dumas 6047 -exact die match):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1313621[/ATTACH]</p><p>...And the protoyype:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1313623[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1313624[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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