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Yetholm-type shield
Type of Bronze Age shield / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Yetholm-type shield is a distinctive type of shield dating from 1300-800 BC (Bronze Age). The known shields come from Britain and Ireland, excepting one from Denmark. Their modern name comes from Yetholm in southern Scotland where a peat bog yielded three examples. Twenty-two examples are known, although some of these are fragmentary, and a further seven or eight are known from written sources but are lost today.[1] The shields vary significantly in size, but are otherwise similar.
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Rock carvings from this period made in Southern Scandinavia include depictions of shields decorated with concentric rings or rings of dots. The artist could not hope to show the fine detail of a Yetholm-type shield, but the similarity is striking.
The impressive shields would have indicated high social status.[1]