Items matching shields

Types of Armour

Explanation of the Plate of Armour No. 1. A Shield called a Roundel. No. 2. A Target. No. 3. A Leaden Mallet, used by the archers, mentioned in the military part of the preface. No. 4. An Iron Mace us [...]

Keywords: armour, weapons, knights, shields, helmets, swords, spears

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Added: 2006-01-11

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67.—Circular British Shield.

“It is equally difficult to determine the date of those valuable relics which have been found in various places, exhibiting a taste for symmetry and nice workmanship in the fabrication of their weapon [...]

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Added: 2007-01-30

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66.—Shield in the Meyrick Collection

“It is equally difficult to determine the date of those valuable relics which have been found in various places, exhibiting a taste for symmetry and nice workmanship in the fabrication of their weapon [...]

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Added: 2007-01-30

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80.—British and Roman Weapons.

In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to prove that the exact day was the 26th of August), a Roman fleet crossed the Channel, bearing the infantry [...]

Keywords: weapons, swords, shields, helmets, axes, spears

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Added: 2007-08-25

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86.—Prow of a Roman Galley.

“In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to prove that the exact day was the 26th of August), a Roman fleet crossed the Channel, bearing the infantr [...]

Keywords: soldiers, boats, weapons, shields, roman soldiers, backgrounds, wallpaper

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Added: 2007-04-24

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2045.—Infantry Armour, 1625 (From a Specimen at Goodrich Court; engraved in Skelton’s Armour)

“Armour, on the decline at the close of the last period, continued to be used through the [English] Civil Wars, though it did not exactly justify James I’s characteristic praise—that it not only saved [...]

Keywords: soldiers, armour, weapons, swords, shields, people, helmets

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Added: 2006-03-19

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191.—Arms and costume of the Tribes on the Western Shores of the Baltic.

Two young men are dressed as soldiers, with metal plate armour (or possibly leather armour). One has a spear or javelin, and the other a sword; both have shields and helmets. In th foreground a curv [...]

Keywords: people, soldiers, weapons, spears, shields

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Added: 2009-08-03

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65.—Shield in the British Museum.

“It is equally difficult to determine the date of those valuable relics which have been found in various places, exhibiting a taste for symmetry and nice workmanship in the fabrication of their weapon [...]

Keywords: weapons, shields

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Added: 2007-01-30

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