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
Hungarian shield
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A Hungarian shield was a specific form of targe. It was rectangular at the bottom, but the upper edge swept upward forming a curve. The elongated upper edge was designed to protect the head and neck a
A Hungarian-style shield, with helmet, from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Fighting with a Messer and what is described as a "Hungarian shield" in the mid-15th-century German commentary (Gladiatoria fechtbuch fol. 55r)