Thank you, Mark.  I viewed again Michael Wood's "In Search of Athelstan" and thanks to your post I recognized the name of the battle of Brunanburh which I had  not before.  In this video also we visit to tomb of St. Cuthbert where the embroidered fabrics are stored that I mentioned before.  I was just as moved as the first time I saw it.  It was when Michael Wood described Athelstan spending the night at the saint's tomb and uttered the phrase "the air crackled with spiritual radioactivity" that this Grinch's heart swelled three times its size. 

Forgive the digression.  Wood suggested the battle took place near Brinsworth.  I don't see that on the map, but is it near the town of Raby which I do see on the map?  He also suggested Burghwallis.  I am wondering if he was close to the mark.

Brinsworth is in Yorkshire miles away. Burnswark (?) is in southern Scotland even further away. He made that documentary years before these latest findings, so we can forgive him.

In the interest of balance there's a rather nice young lady historian who gets on TV quite often - Suzannah Lipscomb. She has the same birthday as me, but considerably younger.