Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Counterfeit damascening
Simpler form of damascening. Fine pattern is applied onto a surface of an armor piece.
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- Aketon
- Quilted piece of clothing worn under armor, made to devour strokes.
- Brigandine
- Form of coat-of-plates with hundreds of small plates, partially covering each other. Mobile yet protective.
- Pollaxe
- (The preferred spelling to polaxe or poleaxe). A knightly staff weapon, its head being an axehead, usually balanced by a fluke or…
- Bayonet
- At the end of the seventeenth century the French introduced the socket bayonet. This contained a sleeve fitting round the barrel and was locked…
