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Todd Feinman
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 Posted: Sun 02 Aug, 2026 6:17 pm Post subject: Figure-8 Shield |
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Hi folks,
I'm making a Mycenaean figure-8 shield. Pics after a while.
Todd
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Matt Corbin
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Looking forward to seeing how this turns out. Keep us posted.
?This was the age of heroes, some legendary, some historical . . . the misty borderland of history where fact and legend mingle.?
- R. Ewart Oakeshott
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Dan D'Silva
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Sounds great. I've always wondered how these might've been built, so it'll be interesting to see how you go about it.
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Dan Howard
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We don't really know much about them. We know what they looked like from illustrations but that is about all. We only think that they were made from hide because some of the illustrations show a pattern that resembles the fur on cowhide. The Lion Hunt dagger shows the shield's back, which has a neck strap, not a central hand-grip (the shields were used with two-handed pikes). One illustration shows cross-hatching, which suggests that the construction might have involved wicker but that is on the later Dipylon shield, not the Figure-8 shield. The vertical keel on the facing tells me that a wicker backing was not needed. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with, Todd.
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen and Sword Books
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Todd Feinman
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| Dan Howard wrote: | | We don't really know much about them. We know what they looked like from illustrations but that is about all. We only think that they were made from hide because some of the illustrations show a pattern that resembles the fur on cowhide. The Lion Hunt dagger shows the shield's back, which has a neck strap, not a central hand-grip (the shields were used with two-handed pikes). One illustration shows cross-hatching, which suggests that the construction might have involved wicker but that is on the later Dipylon shield, not the Figure-8 shield. The vertical keel on the facing tells me that a wicker backing was not needed. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with, Todd. |
Thanks Dan! It will be fun for us, and controversial for all.
Progress pics here:
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewto...p;t=189076
Todd
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This is a standard topic