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1066: How to Forge a Norman Spearhead
This picture from the English Heritage Society shows a blacksmith, Hector Cole MBE, forging a spearhead similar to what would have been used during the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. In the video, he explains how the center of the spear is made…
Depiction of a mace in the Bayeux Tapestry, c. 1070 (original in Musee de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in France)
This is a depiction of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, wielding a mace during the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Westminster Abbey depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
The funeral procession taking the body of King Edward the Confessor (d. 1066) to Westminster Abbey, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. The Latin inscription at the top says: Hic portatur corpus Edwardi regis ad ecclesiam sancti Petri ('here is…