Lesson 4: The Roman Army

Send In Activity 4:
Option C: Make a Model of a Helmet or a Shield

Using wood, cardboard, pâpier maché or other materials, make a model of a Roman helmet or shield. Submit a photograph of your model to your teacher when you are finished. Do not send the model. (10 marks)

Marking Guide

• Your helmet or shield has been carefully and accurately made. It is a reasonable likeness of the original you have chosen as your example.


• Your helmet or shield is decorated, designed, and painted much like one in ancient Roman times was.

Helpful Websites:

Pictures of Roman Shields:

http://www.jelldragon.com/images/scutum_front.jpg

http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/roman/army/img4.gif

http://www.deepeeka.com/swords/Shields/roman_shields.htm


Pictures of Roman Helmets:

http://abacus.bates.edu/~eklose/Romanhelmet

http://www.brubakers.com/brubaker/helms/ah3815.jpg

http://www.murphsplace.com/gladiator/images/helmet.jpg

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