Note 35 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES
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If any fact in Hastings is more certain than another, it is that at the beginning of the battle the main body of the English was posted on a hill. Now 'the priceless record'—the Bayeux Tapestry—represents them on a plain. If the Tapestry could leave out this central feature—the hill of Senlac—from its picture of the opening battle, still more easily could it leave out the intricate barriers upon the hill.35