| At the entrance to one of the galleries stands a Roman military shield, or scutum, a semicylindrical piece made of wood and rawhide that a soldier held in front of him for head-to-toe protection. |
| The Roman scutum was of wood covered with linen and sheepskin. |
| If we imagine the scutum and tergum in the third sub-variety of var. |
| The scutum, ossicles, and tegmen tympani are common sites for erosion. |
| And as four virgates went usually to each hide, so each virgate should contribute 116 of a scutum. |
| On the thorax, the scutal width was measured at the level of the supra-alar setae, and the scutellar width along the area of contact with the scutum. |
