From Encyclopedia
- Plackart
-
Part of
armor. Covers the wearer's lower rib and stomach area. Attached with straps
which allows better flexibility.
- Spurs
- Y-shaped metal goads strapped to the heel, used to drive the horse on. Dating from early antiquity. Early medieval spurs were of simple prick type;…
- Waster
- Also
bavin or
cudgel. Wooden practice
sword.
- Gladius
- The Legions patterned their short swords after those of the Spanish
Celts. The historian, Polybius, says they were introduced into the army
during…
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