Appearence and tactics of early 5th century Saxons.

[Felix]

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Now I can excuse the 44%, as a spear might conceivably be used for
hunting (animals, that is, not Humans). But as you well know, Andreas,
the most significant of these two statistics is the one about shields.
Since nobody - and I mean nobody - ever takes a shield with them
while hunting deer or boar. They are a distinctively military piece of
kit, and nobody but a warrior is going to own one - never mind be
buried with it. 8) :lol: [/color]

Ambrosius/Mike[/color]

Agreed, that a shield is not typical deer-hunting equipment. However, shields do show up occasionally in hunting gear. I don't have any bonafide Saxon hunting images with shields, but there is this: http://www.galenfrysinger.com/hunting_s ... sicily.htm and it is well known that the Masai in Africa did use shields when hunting lions. For wolves or bears, it might have been useful to have a shield (?).