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Comments on: how considerably did a medieval shield value? https://www.medievalclothing.com/2011/06/18/how-considerably-did-a-medieval-shield-value/ Medieval & Renaissance Costumes and Clothing. Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:47:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Dapifer https://www.medievalclothing.com/2011/06/18/how-considerably-did-a-medieval-shield-value/#comment-17852 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:47:47 +0000 http://www.swordsofhonor.com/index-blog.php/?p=102#comment-17852 I know of one record for the cost of shields. The Pipe Rolls (the financial records of the English kings) record that in 1249 two shields for a judicial duel were purchased for the price of 67 pence for the two and a further 3 pence were given to a craftsman to refurbish them. Later, a clerk doodled a picture of the shields in action in the margin of a Curia Regis Roll. You can see the picture here:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/candp/punishment/g03/g03cs2s1.htm

As you can see, these shields would come from the period of transition between kite shields and heaters. They probably had a core of steamed and bent wood with canvas glued over it and covered with gesso and paint. The bosses may or may not have been metal.

ETA: For comparison purposes, in England around the same time an agricultural labourer would make between half a penny and two pennies a day. A skilled construction tradesman made an average of three and a half pennies a day. A bull cost twelve shillings and sixpence, and a pig cost two shillings and half a penny.

]]> By: Jonathan https://www.medievalclothing.com/2011/06/18/how-considerably-did-a-medieval-shield-value/#comment-17851 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:32:21 +0000 http://www.swordsofhonor.com/index-blog.php/?p=102#comment-17851 I don’t recall ever seeing any documentation of the cost of a shield, or any weapon for that matter. Medieval Europe wasn’t like a dungeons and dragons game where you go buy weapons in a store for fixed prices. Normally blacksmiths worked for lords in exchange for housing and food and the lords either used the stuff the smiths made themselves, or handed them on to their underlings as gifts. There wasn’t a monetary “price.”

]]> By: cp_scipiom https://www.medievalclothing.com/2011/06/18/how-considerably-did-a-medieval-shield-value/#comment-17850 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:50:06 +0000 http://www.swordsofhonor.com/index-blog.php/?p=102#comment-17850 the problem with simple answers is that it really depends on the type, place and time. “medieval times” were pretty long and varied, and so were the weapon standards

the average foot soldier would have a shield made from 3-4 wooden planks. If he was lucky it would be covered with leather and reinforced with iron. Typical early medieval model, poor mans late medieval. cost- a couple of silver coins or a goat

a richer soldier would have one made from plywood. better models were bound with leather and iron. cost a gold coin, 3-4 pigs

even more upscale would be an all-metal model, with the best ones hammered out of one piece of metal. cost 2-3 cows or several gold coins

then there were foreign made shields- turkish, moorish, mongol, sudanese. literally hundreds of types- some dedicated to foot combat, others to horse. and some universal types

cheapest would be to buy from a used weapons merchant just after a battle, or scavenge a battlefield. Just make sure to erase any personal signs/emblems from the face of the shield- lest one encouners a relative…

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