14th century. |
Three bell tents in left background. Front bell tent; blue cone apex
colouring, blue line decoration on roof and walls, scalloped roof edge
decoration (alternatively coloured red and white) overhanging walls, single
point guy rope attachment to roof line. Second bell tent; the same designs
are used on the second bell tent but the scalloped edges are coloured blue
instead of red. |
“Warriors scale the walls of a besieged city with ladders (Bodleian
ms, fourteenth century).” |
Koch, H.W., Medieval Warfare, London, 1978, p. 151. |