Buy Edged Weapons: European Polearms

Title	Belt axe head
Nationality	European
Period	15th century
Price	£95.00

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This ground find is a typical camp or belt axe of the type carried by archers in the fighting during the Hundred Years War. It would have been used for small jobs around the camp. In the Balkans, these axes have turned up as ground finds on the Kosovo battlefield, where they would probably have been used by both sides in a similar way.

In the Balkans, these might also have been used as light cavalry axes against the Turks, who, with only their turbans to protect them, were vulnerable to this sort of instrument.

It measures about 13cm from the back of the socket to the leading edge. Its condition, as you would expect of a ground find, is heavily corroded, but all the essential shape is still there.

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[Edged Weapons : Polearms : European : 15th Century]

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