[BGB] hastings -

[michael.cartine at thomson.com]

it was a good trip, worth spending a day there.  what's amazing to me is
the field, the most important in all of england's history, where 5,000
frenchmen on horseback and 5,000 englishmen with spears and shields
spent all day trying to kill each other, is so tiny.  only about 2
soccer pitches total (my unpracticed guesstimate), including the space
from where the Normans started and where they retreated back to.

There's a small museum, the field itself (british national trust sites
give neat audio guides on their sites, which explained the hastings
field), and the abbey, which is a ruined church William built to atone
for the battle itself.

As for the field, note it's appearance is a little changed and
presumably did not have the extra trees spotted around or the ditch or
tiering present now.

Most of the photos were taken from where the Normans started from or
retreated to (not very far apart in either instance - literally a matter
of paces).    The charge would have been up to the anglo line on top of
the hill, where the present day abbey now stands.

 

Mike cartine 
 
 
 
 
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