07-11-2005, 02:52 PM
With regard to the grip on the Danvm shield rumoured not to be vertical,
I had another look at the archaeological drawings made by P Buckland.
(also the person who made the first reconstruction)
The scale on the drawings gives a dimension of 825mm for the length of the iron grip/batten. This would be far too long to have on the shield horizontally. (Buckland states that the shield would be approximately
2' x 4' (610 x 1250mm). The find was also in-situ in a vertical position.
The shield has a vertical handgrip of iron and is similar to another vertical iron grip from Newstead. On this evidence Buckland suggests it may be a cavalry shield (Newstead’s associations with cavalry).
Therefore I can only conclude that it was originally vertical.
A full report on the shield can be found in:
Roman South Yorkshire: A Source Book by P.C. Buckland
Dept of Archaeology and Prehistory
University of Sheffield 1986
ISBN 0-906090-26-2
The drawings etc can be seen on the Vicus website here:
http://www.vicus.org.uk/
look under resources/making a shield. The find drawings are there.
Regards,
I had another look at the archaeological drawings made by P Buckland.
(also the person who made the first reconstruction)
The scale on the drawings gives a dimension of 825mm for the length of the iron grip/batten. This would be far too long to have on the shield horizontally. (Buckland states that the shield would be approximately
2' x 4' (610 x 1250mm). The find was also in-situ in a vertical position.
The shield has a vertical handgrip of iron and is similar to another vertical iron grip from Newstead. On this evidence Buckland suggests it may be a cavalry shield (Newstead’s associations with cavalry).
Therefore I can only conclude that it was originally vertical.
A full report on the shield can be found in:
Roman South Yorkshire: A Source Book by P.C. Buckland
Dept of Archaeology and Prehistory
University of Sheffield 1986
ISBN 0-906090-26-2
The drawings etc can be seen on the Vicus website here:
http://www.vicus.org.uk/
look under resources/making a shield. The find drawings are there.
Regards,