Boat Axe

Geç Neolitik Çağ'da doğu İskandinavya'da bulunan özel bir taş savaş baltası türü, uçları kalkık basit bir tekneye benzediği için bu adı almıştır. 'Bot-balta kültürü' terimi bazen bu baltaların içinde bulunduğu tek mezar veya kordonlu mal kültürünün doğu İskandinav varyantı için kullanılır.

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Canaanean Blade

Özel bir teknikle üretilen son derece düzenli ve büyük (1-2 inç genişliğinde ve 10-12 inç uzunluğunda) bir tür çakmaktaşı bıçak. Teknoloji ilk olarak MÖ 4. binyılın başında Doğu Anadolu ve bitişik bölgelerde ortaya çıkmış ve daha sonra MÖ 3500'de güney Levant'a (Kenaan) aktarılmıştır; bu bıçaklar...

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Chekan

Göğüs göğüse çarpışma için kullanılan özel bir tür vurucu silah. En çok güney Sibirya'da ve İskit döneminde Orta Asya'da yaygındı. Çekan, bronzdan yapılmış, ince sivri uçlu bir tür savaş baltasıdır. Alt ucunda bronz bir dipçik bulunan uzun tahta bir mile sabitlenmiş ve bele özel bir kemerle takıl...

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Glans Plumbea

[Latince: "kurşun meşe palamudu"]. Bir kurşun jeton, Roma ordusundan bir el cephanesi. Miktar ve yüksek hız bakımından sapan kullanan askerler tarafından taşlara alternatif olarak kullanılmıştır.

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Armorican Axe

Rather plain and shoddily made type of socketed bronze ax produced in the period 650-600 bc at the very end of the Bronze Age of northern France (Hallstatt II). Mostly found in large hoards, in which few examples appear to have been finished or used. This has led to the suggestion that they were ...

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Arris

Sharp ridge or edge formed by the junction of two smooth surfaces, especially on the midrib of a dagger or sword, or in moldings. [arris, arrises (pl.)]

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Armorico-British Dagger

Type of bronze dagger found in the Wessex I phase of the Early Bronze Age (c. 1700-1500 bc in southern Britain. It has a flat triangular blade, lateral grooves, six rivets for attaching the blade to the hilt, and sometimes a small tang or languette to assist securing the blade to the hilt. Traces...

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Acinaces

A short sword or scimitar, often very short and worn suspended from a belt around the waist, and used by Eastern nations of antiquity, especially the Medes, Persians, and Scythians.

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Swords

(China). The earliest Chinese swords belong to the Western Zhou period: examples from Zhangjiapo and Lingtai, only 24-27 cm long, date from the 10th century bc. The Western Zhou sword, a tapering two-edged blade with a flat tang for attaching a grip, is not easily related to swords made outside C...

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Swords

Halberd

A metal weapon with a blade like that of a dagger, but mounted at right-angles to the haft and used rather like a battle-axe. Halberds occur quite commonly in the Copper Age of Italy and in several parts of Europe during the Early Bronze Age. Halberd blades on their own can be confused with dagge...

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Glans Plumbea

[Latin: ‘lead acorn’]. A slug of lead, an item of hand ammunition in the Roman army. They were used in quantity and at high velocity (mostly by specialized corps of funditores, ‘slingsmen’) and as an alternative to stones. Both stone and lead missiles are found inscribed with epigrammatic wishes ...

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Glans Plumbea

Carp's Tongue Sword

Type of bronze sword found mostly in north-west France and southern England in the Late Bronze Age (early 1st millennium BC). It had a flange hilt, a broad slashing blade and a long projecting point, which has given the type its name. See Atlantic Bronze Age, Huelva.

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Carp's Tongue Sword

Boat Axe

A special type of stone battle-axe found in eastern Scandinavia in the late Neolithic, so named because it resembles a simple boat with upturned ends. The term ‘Boat-axe culture’ is sometimes used for the east Scandinavian variant of the single grave or corded ware culture in which these axes occur.

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Boat Axe

Battle-Axe

Type of shaft-hole axe designed for use in warfare, made of either stone or metal. Stone battle-axes were widely used in prehistoric Europe from the Late Neolithic onwards; they were so ubiquitous in the later Neolithic of northern Europe that the term Battle-axe culture is often used as a synony...

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Battle-Axe

Armorican Axe

Kuzey Fransa Bronz Çağı'nın sonlarında M.Ö. 600-650 döneminde üretilen sade ve pürüzlü bir şekilde yapılmış soketli bronz balta.

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Bow

An offensive weapon for shooting arrows or missiles and used in hunting and war. It generally consists of a strip of bendable wood or other material with a string stretched between its two ends. The arrow or missile is shot by the recoil after retraction of the string. The weapon was first used i...

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Bow

Lambeth Sword

Type of late Bronze Age straight-sided bronze sword with a flat mid-section and rectangular hilt-tang found in southern Britain in the 12th and 11th centuries BC (Penard Phase). Local indigenous copies of the Rosnoën swords made in northern France.

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Lambeth Sword

Armorican Axe

Rather plain and shoddily made type of socketed bronze axe produced in the period 600-650 BC at the very end of the Bronze Age of northern France (Hallstatt II). Mostly found in large hoards, in which few examples appear to have been finished or used. This has led to the suggestion that they were...

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Armorican Axe

Broadsword

A broad design of sword used for cutting and slashing.

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Broadsword

Dagger

A short stabbing knife which, in ancient and medieval times, was not very different from a short sword. From about 1300 the European dagger was differentiated from the sword. In earliest antiquity, it was made of flint, copper, bronze, iron, or bone. It is difficult to distinguish it from an inof...

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Dagger

Armorico-British Dagger

Type of bronze dagger found in the ESSEX I Phase of the early Bronze Age (c.1700-1500 BC) in southern Britain which has similarities with examples from Brittany. It has a flat triangular blade, lateral grooves, and six rivets for attaching the blade to the hilt. Sometimes a small tang or languett...

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Armorico-British Dagger

Hemigkofen Sword

A style of bronze sword with a leaf-shaped blade and flanged hilt developed in central Europe during the Hallstatt A period and traded to other parts of northern Europe. They appear in Britain, especially in the Thames Valley, during the Penard Phase.

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Hemigkofen Sword

Gundlingen Sword

A type of bronze sword typical of the Hallstatt C period in central Europe with a long leaf-shaped blade, broad shallow butt and pommel tang. Examples were taken or traded out of their homeland area, some reaching Britain around 700 BC.

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Gundlingen Sword

Sword

A weapon evolved from daggers in the bronze age, becoming longer and made with different kinds of grips. It was used for slashing and thrusting and has a broader blade than a rapier, plus a flanged hilt. Single-edged swords are rare and they are more often called sabers or falchions. Sword classi...

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Sword

Rapier

A long pointed two-edged sword used for thrusting or cutting; an offensive weapon of bronze distinguished from the sword by the slenderness of its blade. It developed in the Middle Bronze Age by lengthening of the dagger, and was replaced by the slashing sword in the Late Bronze Age of central an...

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Rapier

Chelsea Sword

Early type of bronze sword found in southern Britain, having a leaf-shaped blade, flat section, and hilt tang. These were local copies of various imported weapons of Hallstatt A type from mainland Europe by Penard Period smiths.

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Chelsea Sword

Gladius

Latin term for a short sword used by Roman legionaries.

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Gladius

Saber

A curved sword designed to cut with used by cavalry.

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Saber

Arris

The sharp ridge or edge formed by the junction of two smooth surfaces, especially on the midrib of a dagger or sword, or in moldings.

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Arris

Chekan

A special kind of striking weapon for hand-to-hand combat. It was most widespread in southern Siberia and in Central Asia in the Scythian period. The chekan is a kind of a battle ax with a thin sharp point, made of bronze. It was fixed onto a long wooden shaft which had a bronze butt at its lower...

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Chekan