In 2015, what we knew about Iron Age shields all changed. And it changed in a field in Leicester... Iron Age Curator Sophia Adams explains the construction of the first shield made of tree bark *ever discovered* in the Northern Hemisphere - how it was built, how it was used and how it changes what we know about shields of the time. It's 2,200 years old. And it's an object you can really get behind.
The Iron Age Shield... that's made of bark? The Enderby Shield
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