Welsh Bucklers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1758-5309|62|1|74-115

ISSN: 0003-5815

Source: Antiquaries Journal, Vol.62, Iss.1, 1982-03, pp. : 74-115

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Abstract

The paper deals with a well-known group of Tudor bucklers (once thought to be Roman), made of leather reinforced with riveted iron or brass rings, sometimes accompanied by radiating strips. The evidence of a group of fifteenth-and sixteenth-century Welsh poems and other records is used to establish that they originated in Wales, and that Wrexham was a noted centre of production. A corpus of recorded examples is given.