Germanic Shield Boss

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A little update:

On this polish site h[url:gu9mq3dw]ttp://www.archeonwl.republika.pl/[/url] you find among other typological tables one about "germanic" shield bosses by german archaeologists Jahn and Bohnsack [url:gu9mq3dw]http://www.pradzieje.republika.pl/umba/umba.htm[/url]. The chronology is geiven with Eggers phases for roman import into the middle european north.

These are the two basic types roughly beginning some decades B.C. to > 100 A.D.:

Boss type 1 (as mentioned in my post above) or better "Spitzkonischer Schilduckel" (pointed conical shield boss).





Boss type 2 or "Stangenschildbuckel" (roded shield boss)



Please notice that the expressions "Boss type 1 or 2" was used by me and is not an official categorism. On the full page you´ll find Eggers chronologicals like B2, C1a, B1 and C1a respectively. But the basic forms of those schown above were in use in modern north western Germany in in the early halfn of 1st ct. AD.


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