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 Waffenkunde. The shields in question are heater-shaped, our illustration (Fig. 96) probably representing the older of the two, as it may date from the middle of the XIIIth century. It is of wood, on the face of which is applied in tooled leather a crowned rampant lion, painted in red and silver, representing the arms of Konrad von Thuringen and Hesse (1220-1241), a grand master of the Teutonic order of the Knights of Prussia. The interior is gilded and painted with the figure of a knight in the armour of the period and a lady. The shield (Fig. 97), though bearing the same arms, is somewhat more elaborate in the treatment of its heraldic subject: the medium of the field of the shield being pierced shows a coloured pigment beneath. Herr Hefner-Alteneck dates this example as belonging to the end of the XIIIth century.

The shield in the County Archaeological Museum, Valeria, is also heater-shaped, and, like those we have described, is built up of wood, leather, and canvas (Fig. 98, a, b). It still retains the enarmes in the interior side. The shield is known as the Sitten shield, and is reputed to have belonged to a noble, by name Von Raron, about 1300. Another shield in the Tyrolean Landesmuseum of Innsbruck has a rounded top and base (Fig. 99). The front is painted with the arms of Carl Beffart von Trier (Trèves), another grand master of the Teutonic order of the Knights of Prussia between 1310 and 1319. The shield was obtained from Castle Reifenstein in the Tyrol.

Tyrolean Landesmuseum, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck

Of the shields in the Royal Armoury of Madrid, both are associated with the Monastery of San Salvador de Oña (Burgos). We have unfortunately been unable to obtain an illustration of either of them.

The older of these two shields (D 59) is made of wood resembling cedar. It is covered on both sides with parchment, thicker on the outer