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"Targe; of wood covered with tooled leather held by brass-headed rivets arranged in circles round large central brass boss, and six smaller bosses interspersed on the periphery by six three-sided brass mounts; the centre boss has hole, perhaps for missing spike. Scotland."
Scotland, 17th century CE. This is a targe, a round shield made of leather, bronze, and wood. It is concave, with enarmes (leather gripping straps) attached to its back and prominent bronze decorations over leather on its front. The inside of the targe is formed from two thin layers of flat wooden boards with the grain of each layer at right angles to each other to provide strength; these were fixed together with small wooden pegs. The leather may be cow skin or deer skin. The face of the ta...
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