10-02-2017, 09:03 PM
Shields were turned, it's a fact not a theory. Extant remains of wooden shield cores still bear the concentric marks of the lathe. Simply, they were probably first steam bent, and then refined on a lathe, instead of making huge blocks and remove all the material on the lathe. [Stamatopoulou, "The Argolic shield and its technology"]
Giannis K. Hoplite
a.k.a.:Giannis Kadoglou
a.k.a.:Thorax
a.k.a.:Giannis Kadoglou
a.k.a.:Thorax