What is on a Roman shield?

What is on a Roman shield?

Scutum is the Latin word for shield, and is what a Roman would have called theirs! Roman shields were made of sheets of wood glued together to make the curved shape. They were usually painted red and decorated, often with lightning bolts or eagles' wings.

What does a Roman shield look like?

A Roman soldier's shield – or 'scutum' – was rectangular in shape and curved to fit and protect the body down to the knees. The shield was made of lightweight wood, then covered with leather or linen material and held together with metal. Togas like this would have been worn by Romans when they were not in battle.

What size is a Roman shield?

The Roman panoply consists firstly of a shield (scutum), the convex surface of which measures two and a half feet in width and four feet in length, the thickness at the rim being a palm's breadth.

How do you make a cardboard shield?

In the picture there are two different types of shields: A Round Buckler type shield and a Kite shield. Select which type you want to make, draw it on your posterboard and cut it out. Then put it on your cardboard, trace around it and cut the cardboard shape out. Note about the grain on cardboard.