Battering Collection

Owen Jones Assyrian 13
Designs taken from enamelled bricks, ornaments from a kings clothing, bronze shields and vessels, and a battering ram, from Khorsabad and Nimroud

Spanish battering ships, port and starboard, used between 1781 and 1783 during the Great Siege of Gibraltar. Date: circa 1781

Roman bireme with crocodile on the stern
Bireme with crocodile and heads carved on the stern, from a basrelief in the Temple of Fortuna Preneste. Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani from his own

Roman trireme and boat
Trireme warship with three decks of oars, battering ram with swords, from the Trajan Column 2, and boat with battering ram from an ancient basrelief 1. Both with eyes on the stern

Roman weapons and armour
Roman helmet from the trophies of Marius in Capitol Hill 1, Roman shield from the Column of Marcus Aurelius 2, Roman sword from the Villa Borghese 3, and battering ram from the Trajan Column 4

Battering rams attacking castle walls
Battering ram and two types of borers to pierce walls at top, and two rams below, one supported by a triangle and the other borne on soldiers shoulders

Machines used in ancient sieges. Vinea 1, pluteus 2, moveable towers 3, 4, and different modes of defending castle walls from a battering ram

Sea battle between Roman and Carthaginian warships
Sea battle between the Roman and Carthaginian warships with various battering rams and prows, including a centaur. Handcoloured copperplate drawn

Carthaginian weapons and soldiers
Soldiers and weapons of Carthage. Carthaginian soldiers in breastplate and helmet 1, 2, Hannibals shield 3, and war machine 4, a battering ram within a portable hut covered in cowhide

Roman siege engines: shelter for sappers digging a tunnel, Vineae 1, semi-circular shelter Pluteus 2, shelter Testudo with battering ram Aries 3, shelter on rolling cylinders Musculus 4

ROMAN SIEGE THREAT
Roman troops threaten to use their battering ram against a Parthian town : the residents come out to parley with the besiegers Date: circa 200

Siege weapons, a battering ram and a crow
Two siege weapons in action -- a battering ram being attacked by a Crow (Corvus) equipped with pincers

Catholic Emancipation
A British battering Ram preparing the way for a Popish Bull - A satire on the pressure for Catholic emancipation, which led to an Act of Parliament in 1829

Roman Siege Tactics
Roman troops attack a Parthian town using a BATTERING RAM - note that it did in fact have a rams head carved at the business end Date: circa 200

Ancient siege weapons in action -- the Corvus or Crow (top) and the battering ram (below). Date: circa 1800

Sukhoi Su-2 -already obsolete by mid-1941, this 1937 light bomber took a battering from the Luftwaffes fighters 910 built

Old Yokel extols the fighting qualities of his son
" My Laad Garge as bin feaghtin t Booers. If e only whopped em like e did is did is Old Woman, ed mak em sit up, I tell ye." Date: 1900

An effective battering ram in the hands of the right men. Illustration shows two strong men labeled Labor and Commerce using a battering ram labeled Tariff Reform to knock down a door in a building

Tank / Easter Rising
O.P.S troops using a tank as a battering ram to force entry into a barricaded building during the Easter Rising in Dublin of 1916

Snowstorm at Ryde 1881
The snow storm of 18th January 1881 battering the railway pier at Ryde, Isle of Wight

Burgundians at Beauvais
In the course of the on-going struggle between the ducs de Bourgogne and the crown, Beauvais is besieged by battering Burgundians

Roman Battering Ram
Roman battering ram

Riding the Stang 1814
A herald carried aloft the stang makes rough music & alerts the neighbourhood to a husband-beater. Natural justice aiming to get wrong- doers to mend their ways

Romans & Parthians
Roman troops threaten to use their battering ram against a Parthian town : the residents come out to parley with the besiegers

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