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    Highland Targets and Other Shields
    Highland Targets and Other Shields
    Highland Targets and Other Shields
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    Highland Targets and Other Shields

    By James Drummond

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Highland Targets and Other Shields - James Drummond

      Project Gutenberg's Highland Targets and Other Shields, by James Drummond

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Highland Targets and Other Shields

      Author: James Drummond

      Release Date: December 1, 2012 [EBook #41527]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HIGHLAND TARGETS AND OTHER SHIELDS ***

      Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive.)

      HIGHLAND TARGETS

      AND OTHER SHIELDS.

      BY

      JAMES DRUMMOND,

      R.S.A., F.S.A. SCOT.

      Edinburgh:

      PRINTED BY NEILL AND COMPANY.

      1873.

      (10.)

      Read before the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, April 1871.

      The Fifty Copies now printed for private circulation contain additional

      matter, with different and more numerous illustrations.

      here is a class of Scottish antiquities to which hitherto comparatively little attention has been paid by the archæologist. I mean the warlike weapons, offensive and defensive, of our Highland forefathers, many of which were used down to a comparatively recent period. Of these weapons much ignorance seems to prevail even among the Highlanders themselves, who almost invariably answer inquiries as to their age, that they had no doubt they had been used from time immemorial.

      In England, and on the Continent, much interest has been taken in the study of arms and armour. On the Continent, the books are endless; in England there are the works of Meyrick, Grose, and Skelton, with Boutell’s Monumental Brasses and Slabs, and others of a kindred nature, all showing how much instruction may be gained by such inquiries when followed out in a proper spirit. In Scotland, we certainly have M‘Ian’s Highlanders, and the Costume of the Clans by John and Charles Sobieski Stuart, both admirable works, but treating more of dress than of the armour and weapons, which, though alluded to, can scarcely be said to be illustrated, and without delineation they are almost valueless, as so much, in these weapons, depends upon the ornamental detail for character.

      At present I wish to call attention only to one of these Highland weapons, the Targaid or Target. No weapon of war

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