The Swedes call the type Långsköld (long shield).
The shield was found at Trondheim bygrund in 1975 in a context dated to the 11th and 12th centuries.
It was found in what was then a backyard in a refusal heap with other discarded objects, it had obviously been thrown away as worn-out and useless.
It is made up by two layers of boards, the upper layer skewed 90º against the lower.
The boards in each layer are approximately 5 – 6 mm thick. One must keep in mind though that the shield parts were waterlogged by the time of the recovery, it could thereby be estimated that the shield probably had a total thickness of close to/less than 10mm.
A series of holes along what is left of the rim implicates that it initially was covered and/or had the rim reinforced, possibly by rawhide that deteriorate quite fast in the ground.
The height is roughly 1 m, and at the widest point it measures approximately 0.5 m.
The wood in the shield was never more closely examined; it is therefore not possible to say which kind of wood that was used.
