COAT OF ARMS

SURCOAT:

The name derives from the French meaning "over the coat " along loose, often sleeves coat reaching down to their feet.

A surcoat/surcote is outer garments that was commonly worn in the middle ages by soldiers. it was worn over the armor to show insignia and help identify what side the soldiers was on.

A heraldic visual on an escutcheon (ie shield) surcoat and tobard ( the latter two being outer garments)

The coat of arms anesutcheon forms and the central element of the full heraldic achievement which in and motto.

TOBARD:

Late Middle Ages a tobard is a type of short coat that was commonly worn by men during the late middle ages and and early modern period in Europe.

SHEILD:

A shield is a piece of personal armor held in the hand, which mayor may not be strapped to the wrist or forearm.

Shields are used to intercept specific attacks,whether from close ranged weaponry or projectiles such as arrows.

By means of active blocks, as well as to provide passive protection by closing one or more lines engagement during combat. Shield were made out of wood,animal's hide, woven reeds or wicker.

Classical antiquity the Barbarians invasion and middle ages they were normally constructed by poplar tree, lime or another split resistant timber,coucred in some instances with a material such as leather or rawhide and often reinforced with metal boss,rim or banding.

They were carried by foot soldiers, knight's, cavalry depending on the time and place shields could be round ,oval, square, rectangular, triangular, bilabra, or scalloped.