02-07-2023, 02:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-07-2023, 07:10 PM by Crispianus.)
(02-07-2023, 12:33 AM)Sean Manning Wrote: Thanks, a popular article attributes a similar diagram to a 1983 publication by a Barry Raftery (possibly A Catalogue of Irish Iron Age Antiquities). Hopefully either the book by Edwards or the book by Raftery has it!
This seems to be another case where people in slightly different fields don't talk to one another, because "Roman army" people know about the Hjortspring shields and the British shields and "Bronze Age Europe" people know about the two wooden shields from Bronze Age Ireland.
Sean I think we crossed wires there the original suggestion (Edwards) turned out to be a red herring...
Barry Raftery, Pagan Celtic Ireland, p. 146, fig. 89... I do believe is the right book ref for the illustration in this thread.
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
