Talk:Battle of Hatfield Chase

message: National flags in the modern sense simply did not exist in 633 A.D.  Military banners existed, but it's not often that we have much useful or detailed information about them.  I would be very curious to know what the basis or evidence is for the claimed flags in the infobox... AnonMoos (talk) 11:10, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Use of flags in infobox

message: The Hatfield Chase page says that the site of the battle is uncertain - it could be in Nottinghamshire.  Other sources are also say it is uncertain (e.g.  page 59).  Should something be added to flag this on the page? 
Surely the spelling is Hatfield Chace - and it is pretty definite where Hatfield Chace is, between Hatfield and Hatfield Woodhouse in South Yorkshire.  But the battle could, of course been nearby, since a lot of this was wetlands/marshlands  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.72.48.39 (talk) 21:25, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It was called by Bede the Battle of Haethfelth (not Hatfield Chace/Chase)- this does not mean it was at Hatfield Chase and that is disputed. It could have been in quite a few locations in South Yorkshire/North Nottinghamshire where there are a few Hatfields. There is no certainty over the battlefield - no archaeology as far as I'm aware. This uncertainty isn't reflected in the article. see eg http://battleofhatfieldsociety.co.uk/about-us/welcome and https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/researchframeworks/eastmidlands/attach/County-assessments/NotAngloSaxon.pdf The identification of the battle with Hatfield Chase was much later and (William Camden 17th century) and more recent scholarship and archaeology lays doubt on his assertion. In 1975 Stanley Revill argued for a site close to Cuckney, known as Heathfield, because of the routes nearby. In 1950 excavations at Cuckney found 200+ male skeletons in a pit. The pit pre-dated the construction of the Norman church. SandrinaHatman (talk) 22:21, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Certainty about the location

message: ===Name and alleged location===
Firstly, this article was named as [Battle of] Hatfield Chase without references in the initial 2004 upload. The alleged-location "The site was a marshy area about 8 miles NE of Doncaster on the south bank of the River Don." was added by an Australia-based writer - again unsourced - in 2006.
Both of the above editors are inactive.
===Challenged location===
In regard to the comments in earlier sections above, I have added a new section to annotate within the article that the location is being challenged, as this has been discussed in secondary sources. As editors will know, Wikipedia is not censored, so per WP:NPOV this seems to me to be a reasonable way to address the imbalance regarding the unsubstantiated location.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 20:51, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name and challenged location 

message: In regard to the comments in earlier sections above, I have added a new section to annotate within the article that the location is being challenged, as this has been discussed in secondary sources. As editors will know, Wikipedia is not censored, so per WP:NPOV this seems to me to be a reasonable way to address the imbalance regarding the unsubstantiated location.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 20:51, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Challenged location