16th century round shield

[Marcus den toom]

Thank you Lee for your input and showing your own shield. It follows the same build for the leather straps as my own shield too, with the spacing of the two pairs of fastening points/rivets being offset from one another. This allows for one larger leather strap with, most likely a belt buckle like the one shown in post 2.

[Triarii]

Some useful pictures. I've recreated the strap arrangement from the Dutch print on my reproduction rotella, which gets used for reenactments.

[Lee]

I strongly suspect that the shoulder strap shown in Triarii's upper image would have been absolutely obligatory for carrying my example. Unfortunately, other than the rivets, nothing of the suspension has survived.

Here is another example of a top end example of these shields at the Met: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/27247