Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Helmet
Armor protecting the head. Comes in many forms.
From Encyclopedia
- Coat-of-Plates
- Form of a flexible plate- armor made of steel, bone, or hardened leather plates which are riveted or stitched inside leather or…
- Finger-Ring
- See Annellet.
- Pollaxe
- (The preferred spelling to polaxe or poleaxe). A knightly staff weapon, its head being an axehead, usually balanced by a fluke or…
- Slow match
- A slow-burning cord of hemp or flax soaked in saltpetre and then dried. Used to ignite cannon and hand guns.
