A siege hook is a weapon used to pull stones from a wall during a siege. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Separation barrier. ... A siege is a military blockade and assault of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition. ...
The Greek historian Polybius, in his Histories, mentions the use of such weapons at the Roman siege of Ambracia: Polybius (ca 203 BC - 120 BC, Greek Πολυβιος) was a Greek historian of the Mediterranean world famous for his book called The Histories or The Rise of the Roman Empire, covering the period of 220 BC to 146 BC. // Personal experiences As the former tutor of Scipio Aemilianus , the famous adopted... Ambracia (more correctly Ampracia) was an ancient Corinthian colony, situated about 7 miles from the Ambracian Gulf in Greece, on a bend of the navigable river Aracthus (or Aratthus), in the midst of a fertile wooded plain. ...
The Aetolians being besieged by the consul Marcus Fulvius, offered a gallant resistance [...] as the rams vigorously battered the walls, and the long poles with their iron sickles tore off the battlements, they tried to invent machines to baffle them, letting down huge masses of lead and stones and oak logs by means of levers upon the battering rams; and putting iron hooks upon the sickles and hauling them inside the walls, so that the poles to which they were fastened broke against the battlements, and the sickles fell into their hands.[1]
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Siege weapons were varied and ingenious inventions, their main object being to effect an entrance through the gates or walls.
At the siege of Marseille the defenders countered attempts to tunnel under their walls by digging a large basin inside the walls which they filled with water.
The only defence against the Roman's massive siege engines was to destroy them either by fire missiles, or by sorties made by a small, desperate body of men who'd try to set fire to them or turn them over.
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