Buckler
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A buckler is a small shield, up to 45 cm in diameter, gripped in the fist with a central handle behind the boss. It became more common as a companion weapon in hand-to-hand combat during the Medieval
Buckler front and back
Sword and buckler combat, plate from the Tacuinum Sanitatis illustrated in Lombardy, ca. 1390.
Targe
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The targe is a type of strapped round shield that was used by Scottish Highlanders in the early modern period. From the late 16th century, until the Battle of Culloden in 1746, the Scottish Highlander
A Highland targe exhibited in the National Museum of Scotland
Charles Edward Stuart's highly decorated targe (1745)
Scottish reenactor wielding a targe