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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth
So if you look at Low Tech, it's got somewhat clear answers to this embedded in the shield descriptions...
Large shield: "They cover the warrior from chin to shins,"
Medium shield: "covering from chin to thighs"
Small shield: "rarely longer than the forearm"
I can't particularly reconcile that with your numbers, but it might be worth asking whether you're sure you've got the right scutum. From looking it up, it sounds like that's a rectangular medium scutum (DB2), not the earlier eliptical heavy one. I don't have the hoplology scholarship to say whether Low Tech's distinctions and numbers are sound, but they are there.
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The rectangular scutum I looked up was 45" tall and 41" wide, weighed 20-25 lbs. It has about a foot of curvature in it left-to-right. Moving the lower bound of large shields to 9 square feet would not go amiss. That would still put most of the scutums in the large shield category, but allows for some larger versions of medium.