"ID these weird hexagonal shields, please?" Topic
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| JSears | 29 May 2011 6:38 p.m. PST |
I have a grab bag of Foundry (?) shields. I don't recognize two of them from any ancient or medieval culture and my Google searches haven't turned anything up. Check them out here: picture They appear to be hexagonal shields I've seen associated with Celts / Gauls / Germans, but they have a semi-circular cutout on the top and bottom. |
aecurtis  | 29 May 2011 7:20 p.m. PST |
It's one of the Celtic variants: link Quite imaginative, I suppose. Allen |
 Herkybird  | 30 May 2011 2:02 a.m. PST |
A little file at top and bottom and they will work well for Germans and Germanic Equite alares methinks? |
| Swampster | 30 May 2011 2:43 a.m. PST |
Scroll to the bottom of here
battleshields.tumblr.com
Seems the bindings were in situ which supports the shape as being the same as a whole load of small bronze 'votive' shields. link The abstract of an article about them is here
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| JSears | 30 May 2011 5:50 a.m. PST |
Wow! Thanks! Very interesting. I'll set the aside for my eventual ancient Britons :) |
| aecurtis | 30 May 2011 6:10 a.m. PST |
Some skepticism here: link And if you start basing things, as that Battle Shields fellow does, on the Portonaccio Sarcophagus--oh, my. Allen |
| TKindred | 30 May 2011 7:31 a.m. PST |
Allen, Thanks for that link. Very interesting reading. |
| Swampster | 02 Jun 2011 2:14 a.m. PST |
ŁAnd if you start basing things, as that Battle Shields fellow does, on the Portonaccio Sarcophagus--oh, my." He's wary of it:
". Unfortunately, the real accuracy of the shields doesn't look good as there are romanticizations of this scene… …Nonetheless, you may have to take this carving with a pinch of salt but it is still quite valuable." |
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