VERY RARE LATE MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN BRONZE MACE HEAD WARTIME RELIC 1300 - 1500 AD
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LATE MEDIEVAL EASTERN EUROPEAN BRONZE WARTIME WEAPON WITH FOUR LARGE SHARP EDGES
This medieval weapon was an armor-fighting weapon. Used as a close contact weapon and also used from horseback, it uses a heavy head on the end of a handle to deliver powerful strikes.
Maces were used by knights against opposing knights and were especially popular in Eastern Europe
By the later part of the Middle Ages, short swords were a slightly wealthy peasan...ts weapon. A knight would laugh at a soldier approaching with a sword drawn, unless that man was like a surgeon in the heat of battle, the Knight would crush his skull in a matter of seconds, because he was using a mace. As armour developed so too did weapons. Maces were that major development, a mace simply dented heavy plate armour and that blunt force shock would travel through the plate, even through their gambeson and it would feel to them as if they were hit without wearing armour at all. This would smash ribs and cause horrific internal injuries. Fatalities were very high. A mace was directly viewed as a bloody horrific wartime weapon. Mace heads with this size were typical from the XIV century onwards
DIMENSIONS: 200 Grams50x30mm
Age: 1300-1500 AD
Metal detecting find in Eastern Balkans area in the 1980s
This medieval weapon was an armor-fighting weapon. Used as a close contact weapon and also used from horseback, it uses a heavy head on the end of a handle to deliver powerful strikes.
Maces were used by knights against opposing knights and were especially popular in Eastern Europe
By the later part of the Middle Ages, short swords were a slightly wealthy peasan...ts weapon. A knight would laugh at a soldier approaching with a sword drawn, unless that man was like a surgeon in the heat of battle, the Knight would crush his skull in a matter of seconds, because he was using a mace. As armour developed so too did weapons. Maces were that major development, a mace simply dented heavy plate armour and that blunt force shock would travel through the plate, even through their gambeson and it would feel to them as if they were hit without wearing armour at all. This would smash ribs and cause horrific internal injuries. Fatalities were very high. A mace was directly viewed as a bloody horrific wartime weapon. Mace heads with this size were typical from the XIV century onwards
DIMENSIONS: 200 Grams50x30mm
Age: 1300-1500 AD
Metal detecting find in Eastern Balkans area in the 1980s
