Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Cross-guard
See Cross.
From Encyclopedia
- Lame
- A narrow strip or plate of steel, sometimes used in armour to provide articulation.
- Mitten gauntlet
- A gauntlet with articulated transverse lames covering the fingers, rather than the fingers each being separately protected by a series of…
- Tassets
- Overlapping plates covering the joint of the haunch part in a full- armor.
- Xiphos
- Bronze sword with a tanged metal blade fitted into a plain wooden hilt.
