Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Spatha
Long cavalry sword.
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- Backsword
- Also Mortuary sword or German Reitschwert. Has only one cutting edge (therefore its name). The non-cutting edge is…
- Mortuary sword
- See Backsword.
- Targe
- Small, more flat wooden shield covered with leather or metal-trimmed, later all- steel.
- Adze
- The adze was a traditional carpenter’s tool with a long thin axe-like blade attached at a right angle to the handle; they were used for cutting…
