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I dunno why this cropped into my head but the thought occured to me the other day, would all soldiers shields be the same size? i know it seems pretty obviously that they would...but then i thought well would a much taller soldier not need to cover the same vital areas as a short soldier.. for example im nearly 6ft 3.. and possibly a good 8 or 9 inches taller than the guys in my group and my shield does look smaller when i hold it in comparison to the rest of the guys..
i suppose if this was the case, forming up in tesudo would be slightly more difficult.. just wondered if there was any written evidence to tell us that scutums were always the same dimensions?
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Try running a search on your topic, it's been discussed before! 8)
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Wow! Your taller than me?
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I can't believe that for a minute! :lol:
Thats why we send you in the front, that way we can use smaller shields... :twisted: :wink:
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Matthew,
The soldier with the scutum without umbo have a little risk to be hurt in the hand... :lol:
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I thought that was the drivers window..... :lol:
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I guess it would prove its worth as psychological warfare...
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ahh facinating! Any other suggestions on what would be a good measurement of size? so is it shoulders to knees for the height? what about the width of the shield? would it be shoulders length accross?
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The Dura Europas scutum was approximately 42" x 34". I'd add a couple of inches to allow for modern stature compared to Roman stature.
A useful page written by a member here:
http://www.principialegionis.org/scutum ... ction.html
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