South Cadbury shield
- Description
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This Yetholm-type shield is 66 cm in diameter and less than 1 mm thick. It is decorated with over 6,000 individually-stamped bosses. The metal is too thin for the shield to have been used in battle. Instead it served as a symbol of the ownerês importance. The shield dates from the period 1350-1150 BC.
- Accession Loan No.
- TTNCM : 110/1998/1
- Collection Class
- Prehistory
- Common Name
- South Cadbury shield
- Simple Name
- shield
- Period Classification
- Bronze Age (2500-700 BC)
- Production Date
- 1350-1150 BC
- Material
- metal, bronze
- Collection Site Name
- Milsom's Corner
- Collection Parish
- South Cadbury
- Collection Town
- Yeovil
- Collection County
- Somerset
- Collection Country
- England
- Collection Continent
- Europe