From Encyclopedia
- Locking gauntlet
- Gauntlet with overlapping little plates fastened to a pin on the wrist.
- Skull
- The part of a helmet covering the top, back and the sides of the head above the ears. It can also denote a simple metal cap.
- Target
- A round shield, mounted on the arm, used throughout history. Most targets were large (30 - 36”) and made of wood, but in the…
- Recurve bow
- Unlike the longbow, the ends of an unstrung recurve bow are curved away from the archer. This allows the strung bow to be more powerful and shorter…