Once they had lost their King, many of the English ran away. Some Saxons followed them allowing the remaining Norman soldiers to attack the weak points left in the shield wall. The shields all overlapped each other to provide the best kind of protection from all the Normans' flying arrows! They stood in a long line, putting their shields in front of them in defence (this was known as a shield wall).
The battle was fought on a hill! The English army started the battle at the top of the hill and the Normans started at the bottom.Many of the people who lived in England at the time of the battle were known as Anglo-Saxons.
