11-09-2017, 09:00 AM
(11-08-2017, 03:44 PM)Graham Sumner Wrote: Hi
I think Frontinus mentions wicker shields covered with leather. Certainly when the E.S.G. made new wicker shields covered with leather they were much much heavier than the older ones they had used previously which were wicker alone.
They also last longer.
Graham.
That sounds like a solution to me, but would be I think rather expensive both now and then.... how about thick felt?
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
