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870.—Machines for Boring Holes in Castle Walls. more
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| Image title: | 870.—Machines for Boring Holes in Castle Walls. |
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| Source: | Knight, Charles: “Old England: A Pictorial Museum” (1845) |
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| Keywords: | castles, backgrounds, wallpaper, siege engines, battles, weapons, people, greyscale |
| Status: | out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive. |
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Medieval crusaders (mediaeval knights) use various devices to make holes in the defensive walls of a castle. In the background a group of people wearing tunics are talking, while a couple of distant soldiers carry spears. The usefulness of making a hole in the wall was that castle walls were usually made of rubble held between two relatively thin stone walls. Once you made a hole, you could weaken the walls perhaps enough to make a hold big enough to get inside. This is the lasst of a group of several related images about attacking a castle and defending a besieged castle. |
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| Blog image: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/3/0870-Machines-for-boring-holes-in-castle-walls-q75-500x375.jpg |
| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/3/pages/0870-Machines-for-boring-holes-in-castle-walls/ |
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