Our first port of call in the UK was the famous field of Hastings. We got off the ferry at Dover and caught a train to Hastings. The field is much as it was at the time, but for the fact that the ridge-line that the Saxons defended was leveled so that an Abbey could be built there in honour of the fallen dead.
It was here that King Harold lead his Saxon army against the invading Norman army of King William of Normandy. The Normans won, by the way.
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| (right) The battlefield... (left) The Abbey on the hill. | ||
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| The field | David in the ruined hall of the Abbey... | |
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| The Abbey from outside |
A re-enactor greets visitors...
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