The testudo, a wooden shelter, was also used, large enough to contain several men.   anvd [Please select]

[Illustration: A TESTUDO A relief from the Column of Trajan, Rome.   anvd [Please select]

As the testudo, as it was called in those days, advanced toward the castle, the machines upon the walls--catapults, mangonels and arbalasts--poured forth showers of stones and darts upon it, breaking up the array of shields and killing many; and as these openings were made, the archers, seizing their time, poured in volleys of arrows.   anvd [Please select]

Closely packed together, with their shields above their heads forming a sort of testudo or roof which protected them against the Saxons' arrows, they pressed forward in spite of the shower of missiles with which the Saxons on the walls assailed them.   anvd [Please select]