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The heater shield or heater-shaped shield is a form of European medieval shield, developing from the early medieval kite shield in the late 12th century in response to the declining importance of the shield in combat thanks to improvements in leg armour.
The rondache or roundel was a shield carried by late Medieval and Renaissance foot soldiers (swordsman). [1] It was made of boards of light wood, sinews or ropes, covered with leather, plates of metal, or stuck full of nails in concentric circles or other figures. [2] Widespread among the infantrymen of northern Italy in the 15th century. [3
In heraldry, an escutcheon (/ ɪ ˈ s k ʌ tʃ ən /) is a shield that forms the main or focal element in an achievement of arms.The word can be used in two related senses. In the first sense, an escutcheon is the shield upon which a coat of arms is displayed.
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Targe (from Old Franconian targa 'shield', Proto-Germanic *targo 'border') was a general word for shield in late Old English. [citation needed] Its diminutive, target, came to mean an object to be aimed at in the 18th century. [citation needed] The term refers to various types of shields used by infantry troops from the 13th to 16th centuries ...
Model of a medieval crossbowman using a pavise shield. It is decorated with Bartolomeo Vivarini's St. Martin and the Beggar.. A pavise (or pavis, pabys, or pavesen) was an oblong shield used during the mid-14th to early 16th centuries.
A buckler is a very small round shield popular in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Scandinavian seafaring warriors of the early medieval period used wooden round shields with centergrips. Taming, a round shield from the Philippines. Targe typically referred to a round shield. The dhal was a round shield in India. The Romans used the ...
Evidence indicates that alder, willow, and poplar wood were the most common types; shields of maple, birch, ash, and oak have also been discovered. [91] The diameter of shields greatly varied, ranging from 0.3 to 0.92 m (1 to 3 ft), although most shields were between 0.46 to 0.66 m (1 ft 6 in to 2 ft 2 in) in diameter. [92]