Highland Targets and Other Shields

by James Drummond

THE MACDONALD TARGET. IN THE POSSESSION OF M^R DRUMMOND, R.S.A.

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HIGHLAND TARGETS.

The two first are in the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries. The one is of an early type and is bound with brass. On the outer circle of the design is stamped a series of rude attempts at birds. It originally has had a spike. The same class of ornamentation having been in use with little variation from an early period, it is no easy matter to affix dates to Highland and Scandinavian weapons of any sort, in such a specimen as this, however, age is unmistakeable. The second is of a pattern not unusual, with mountings of large bosses and triangular decorations of brass. The third is of chaste and symmetrical design, and the last is curious, from having worked upon it initials and a date as part of the pattern—D. M‘L. 1723.

HIGHLAND TARGETS.

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HIGHLAND TARGETS.