Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Pauldron
Plate armor for shoulders from several overlapping pieces.
From Encyclopedia
- Studded and Splinted Armor
- Heavy fabric or leather with the filling of rigid materials riveted in plates or strips.
- Ventail
- An integral flap of mail attached to the coif in the thirteenth century; it could be drawn across the mouth to protect the lower face.
- Ice pick
- Small tool consisting of a thin metal spike fitted into a wooden handle.
- Ox-tongue spear
- Also called the Langdebeve and Langue de Boeve (both mean tongue of the ox). The ox-tongue spear was a polearm weapon common among the Swiss and…
