03-24-2019, 08:45 PM
(03-24-2019, 01:50 PM)Crispianus Wrote: On Trajans Column your seeing an artistic impression, if you want to know the true size of a shield then you need to look at archeological remains such as the evidence from surviving shields, their components and items like leather covers... off which there are quite a few, the current shield sizes are generally based on these artifacts not artistic impressions...
The thing being... that there aren't many that I know of
And again, the description of how they were used fits the small shield size more than it does the huge thing we see thrown around a lot.