Spiky Buckler

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Spiky Buckler

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For those of you that have wondered about the spiky bucklers depicted in some Medieval documents you can see a picture of one from a German museum at the link below.

http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread ... adid=54253

Apparently the shields were a cast iron framework with a thick leather backing.
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I wonder how much that thing weighs.
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