The Most Ancient of Field Sports.
Falconry claims to be the most ancient field sports followed at the present day. There is an Assyrian bas-relief of a date anterior to 1200 B. C, showing a falconer with a hawk on his wrist. In Britain it seems to have been followed before the time of the heptarchy, and in the celebrated Bayeux tapestry Harold is figured with a hawk upon his hand. It seems, however, to have been practiced in eastern countries and central Europe long before it became established in Great Britain. But after the Nor*
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 307, 26 January 1894, Page 8
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96The Most Ancient of Field Sports. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 307, 26 January 1894, Page 8
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