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Description: | Target made of wood, covered with ox leather which has been tooled with a key-like design and studded in a circular pattern with round-headed brass rivets and four larger round bosses, The central boss is decorated with pierced hearts and a dirk screws in into it, making it a weapon as well as a defence. Museum's slip catalogue: 'John Roy Stuart and his Badenoch men stayed at Lowther Hall on the eve of the Clifton Fight and there John Roy lost his kit and his servant. This target was found hung high in the stables complete with a screw-in dirk in its sheath behind'. See also ABDUA: 18083.
"John Roy Stuart's targe, lost by him at Clifton, Cumberland."
Author: Inglis,Jim & Curtis,Neil Date: 1990 Purpose: Encyclopaedia of the North-East
"This round shield or 'targe' belonged to John Roy Stuart, a Jacobite Captain, who lost it when he and his Badenoch men stayed at Lowther Hall, Clifton, Northumberland on the eve of the Clifton fight in 1745. The Jacobites were adherents of James VII of Scotland and his descendants, the Stuarts, believing that the British Throne should be theirs. The dispute divided many families and eventually led to defeat at the Battle of Culloden and the subsequent suppression of the Highlands by the Hanoverians. The targe is made of wood, covered by ox leather, tooled with a key-like design and studded in a circular pattern with round-headed brass rivets and four larger round bosses. The central boss is decorated with hearts and has a dirk screwed into it, making it a weapon as well as a defence."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN
Acquisition source: Davidson, George | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1700-1745 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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