Weight of a center grip shield
As one travels the swamps of academic research and in the hills of reenactor discussions on the internet... One learns to know a lot of common opinions about stuff. One common opinion is that shields are heavy. It is not known how much the originals weight... Information about the most well preserved finds is still quite not precise or available. For example the best example of well preserved find would be the Shutton Hoo shield and its weight information availlable is 3-5kg... ( https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1939-1010-94 ) As I (Arttu) am in the process of designing training equipment for "center grip shield combat" I would love my weapon simulators to represent reasonable weight and dimensions of original finds. Dimensions are quite well documented in archeological record, but weight remains a question. I have constructed few shields. They are constructed to represent so called viking age shields. (see examples for hypotheticly thin one here: https: