Context (Related Documents)
Note added to catalogue card reads: 'Two shields found with same number. Nov. 1976'.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Other owners)
(Bio) Reverend (later Canon) John Roscoe C.M.S.

Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Very convex shield, with large wooden boss in middle. Covered inside and out with woven reeds. Raw hide covered with long hair fastened round edge of shield, though less than ROS 1920.291 A. String threaded through holes in boss. The foundation is of wood, on which have been fastened strips of wood, arranged in cross slats with vertical bands. The handle is a bundle of twigs, fastened lengthwise in the bend of the shield.

Event Date 1920
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Wooden shield, covered with strips of plant fibre that are arranged horizontally across the front and back and held in place with vertical bands. The shield is round and convex; the shape is like a circle that has been folded vertically back on itself down the middle. There is a central boss with a hide string threaded through it, and a border of raw hide with black hair still attached around the edge. The handle is a bundle of twigs, fastened lengthways inside the bend of the shield.
Event Date 7/1/2022
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Roscoe Collection catalogued in 1920 was given numbers 1920.1 - 1920.480. These are not Accession Register numbers, and conflict with numbers allocated to other artefacts accessioned in 1920. They do not appear under any other number in any Accession Register and the only documentation for them is their catalogue cards. In 2001 they were given the temporary suffix ‘/Roscoe’ to distinguish them. This has now been replaced with the prefix ‘ROS’.
Event Date 7/1/2022
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson