14th century. |
Three pavilions and ten bell tents.
Top row from left to right.
Wall tent, blue line decoration, square doorway, red heater with gold
a lion on roof.
Bell tent, blue line decoration and roof and walls, door flaps are
held open by tying up a bunch of the flap material, blue heater with a
yellow.
Bell tent, same as above , door way not visible, yellow heater with
red dragon.
Pavilion, blue line decoration, round turrets at each of the three
visible ones, each topped by a banner, triangular roof chopped off square,
door held open like first bell tent.
Bell tent, same as the second bell tent but with a red banner with
a gold lion.
Possible pavilion, blue line decoration, yellow square banner with
red dragon.
Bottom row left to right.
Bell tent, blue line decoration.
Pavilion with turrets similar to pavilion in top row but with triangular
roof, red and yellow square flags from each end of the roof, and yellow
flags fly from each of the turret apexes.
Bell tent, blue line decoration, ball apex and square yellow banner.
Bell tent, blue line decoration, ball apex and triangular pennon.
Bell tent, roof only, blue line decoration, blue pennon.
Two bell tents, blue roof apex only.
Bell tent, blue line decoration, possibly red pennon. |
“High ranking lords did not renounce their customary comforts even
on the battlefield. The illustration shows a negotiation scene in (front
of) tents, fourteenth century. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. ms
verandas 12559.” |
Hrynkiw,D.
http://www.kwantlen.bc.ca/
~donna/sca/tents.htm,
July
29th, 1996. |