Sunday, 4 January 2026

The Iron Age Shield... that's made of bark? The Enderby Shield | Curator's Corner S8 Ep7 Fundraiser

 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.

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