We'll be returning to Mont-Saint-Jean, which served as the Allies main field hospital during the Battle of Waterloo. Over the course of the Battle, it's estimated that some 6000 men were treated at Mont-Saint-Jean, and a gruesome 500 limb amputations were carried out here.

In 2019, our excavations at the farm revealed a pit of amputated limbs, alongside evidence of the brutal nearby battle including an unexploded howitzer shell, a 6lb cannon ball, and hundreds of musket balls.

In 2022, we made our most significant discovery to date at Mont-Saint-Jean: a complete human skeleton, only the second ever found on the battlefield, alongside the skeletons of three horses which had been euthanised via musket balls to the skull.

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We believe that we may have only scratched the surface of what is left to uncover at Mont-Saint-Jean - a possibility we will be exploring through a season of target excavation in the farm's orchard.