shield construction display piece

[jvrjenivs]

In most of the books describing the layered construction of a shields, they show these nice 'exploded-view' drawings. These pictures where you can see all the parts and every fase of construction in just one piece. I thought it would be nice to make such a piece for educational purposes, with the top completed and the bottom just started, so to speak.

It's a copy of one of the finds from the Netherlands, were the umbo and shield rim were found. The shield edge are still to be attached, and is as close to the original remains as I could get it (although in the original find only half this piece was found). Also some paint should be added to the rawhide. Still to come is the handle with will be not attached to it (as it is on the back side) but will be displayed next to it, together with all the materials used (bulls hide glue, wood, linen, rawhide, casein paint).