Historical Artifacts

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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!

Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

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Re-enactors in full kit showing use of a 1st-2nd century AD Roman Testudo formation to allow troops to mount a wall (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus to c/historyartifacts

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[–] PugJesus 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess I'm not seeing what you mean by overlapping the shields the other way?

[–] Nikko882 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The way they are currently set up the bottom shield is in front of the shield above it, so that when it gets pushed on it is supported by the next shield (which is again supported by the next shield, and so on).

It feels more intuitive that the shield should overlap the other way (instead of the top of your shield being supported by the next shield, the bottom of your shield would be supported by the previous shield) because the final shield in the row has to be the heaviest to hold and the first one is supported by the ground.

[–] PugJesus 4 points 2 months ago

Okay, I see what you mean now. Not sure why they didn't do that.