Death of King Harold, Battle of Hastings Size:XL: 100 x 80cm View of the brick lighthouses

View of the brick lighthouses built in the 18th century to replace earlier wooden towers

built about 1520

Sextans (the sextant) and Virgo (the virgin)

There are two eyepiece holes

In the foreground

Death of King Harold, Battle of Hastings Size:XL: 100 x 80cm View of the brick lighthousesDeath of King Harold, Battle of Hastings, 1066 (1864). Harold II (c1022 1066) was nominated as his successor as King of Angles and Saxons by Edward the Confessor. His claim to the throne was disputed by William of Normandy, however, who landed at Pevensey, Sussex with an army on 28 September 1066. William and Harold's armies met in battle on Senlac Hill, 6 miles inland from Hastings, on 14 October, with the Normans winning the day. According to