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Seagoing Norman Ship from the Bayeaux Tapestry
Norman seagoing ship from the late 11th century AD (Bayeaux Tapestry).
The seagoing warship represented here is from the Bayeaux tapestry, a contemporary record of the arrival of the Normans into Britain from France. It is considered a reasonably accurate portrait of Viking galleys of the period, except that it shows no oars, only warriors with their shields.
The words "Ad Pevensae," meaning "To Pevensey," refer to the castle site on Britain's southern shore where the first Norman advance landed in AD 1066. Centuries before, between AD 300 and 400, Pevensey had been a Saxon Shore Fort during the last two centuries of the Roman period in Britain. After the Norman Invasion of 1066, It was converted into a Norman fortress, lasting into the 13th century.
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