Watchman said

"The Scottish "schiltrom", however, is a bit different thing. It was really just a static circular "hedgehog" of long spears, and while obviously providing good all-around cavalry protection was very much a sitting duck to missile troops. Something of a failed experiment in a proto-pike square you could say."


In most cases this was true, the enemy usually stood off the schiltron and peppered it with missiles but at Bannockburn Robert the Bruce drilled the schiltrons so that they could advance in formation, like a "phalanx".

I don't think the Scots used schiltrons much after the 14th Century and the Scots fighting in the 100 Years War in France were probably indistinguishable in arms from their French allies who would have equipped them.

GO'C