Scene of carnage from the Battle of Hastings. Saxons and Normans, infantry and cavalry, in a bloodbath. A group of English soldiers defends a hill with lance and axe. Chromolithograph by William Mossman after an illustration by Charles Stothard made for the Society of Antiquaries in Rev. John Collingwood Bruce’s The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated, John Russell Smith, London, 1856.

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