English army, disorganised by the loss of its chief leaders, but hardly knowing that it was beaten ; and where the ground was advantageous they turned upon the foe and slew many. In some such position, as Mr. LOWER has pointed out, near Caldbeck hill, this fourth repulse of the Normans may have occurred ; but we cannot identify Man Fosse with the Monk of Battle's Mal Fosse,for the Monk's was between the two hostile armies ; neither can we identify it with WACE's Fosse, for on the morning of the battle, WACE's was between the two armies, and after the Normans had deployed into position, it was in the Norman rear.
As the sun went down, we stood around the spot where 800 years before, almost on that very day and hour, Harold was beaten to the ground. For many years a faithful tradition had been handed down from father to son that Harold's standard had stood here, but it was left to our own generation, by laying bare a portion of the crypt of the Abbey Church , to discover the exact site of its high altar, and so to prove the truth of the old tradition.
