[ANSTHRLD] Fw: [SCA-Archery] A History Question

PoetLover poetlover at spdway.net
Thu Aug 9 10:37:25 PDT 2001


This was forwarded to me by my husband. Can anyone help answer
this guy's question? The archers can't seem to come to an
agreement on an answer.
Bridgid

> > With all of the historical archery knowledge we have on this
list I'm
> > hoping someone can help me. I am trying to paint a
Crossbowman's
> > Pavise and I want to be as authentic as I can. I found two
examples
> > of a pavise and both have three small heraldic shields panted
on
> > them, one center, one upper right quarter and one upper left
> > quarter.  On both of these, all three of the shields are
different.
> > Unfortunately, I don't recognize any of the shields so I
can't use
> > that as a clue.  Does anyone have any ideas what they
represent? For
> > example would they be for the city, kingdom and lord that the
> > crossbowman fought for? Thank you.





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