The opening scene of the ‘finale section’ shows a mountjoy has been raised to symbolize the Norman victory. A mountjoy ‘mont-joie’ is a cairn of stones erected to denote victory and to commemorate the dead. William instructed the mountjoy to be built on Caldbec Hill. The first duty now was the burial of the dead. Duke William went over the battlefield in person, superintending the funeral rites of the slain of his own army. The women of the surrounding country side, by William’s express order, were then allowed to come onto the battlefield to retrieve their own loved ones and take them away for burial.