2-690-936 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Saxons Battering Down A City Wall', c1934. Illustration showing 'barbarian invaders' using an iron-tipped wooden battering ram hung on a frame to break down the walls of a town. The accompanying text notes that 'it is interesting to remember that a battering ram was used in Britain as recently as 1890 during the Irish Evictions'. From The Romance of the Nation, Volume One, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd., London, c1934]