Highland Targets and Other Shields

Drummond, James · 1877

_The_ FIFTY COPIES _now printed for private circulation contain additional matter, with different and more numerous illustrations._ There is a class of Scottish antiquities to which hitherto comparatively little attention has been paid by the archæologist. I mean the warlike weapons, offensive and defensive, of our Highland forefathers, many of which were used down to a comparatively recent period. Of these weapons much ignorance seems to prevail even among the Highlanders themselves, who almost invariably answer inquiries as to their age, that they had no doubt they had been used from time immemorial.…

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