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Summary
Public domain photo of a golden object, Europe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The halberd consists of an axe blade topped with a spike mounted on a long shaft. It can have a hook or thorn on the back side of the axe blade for grappling mounted combatants. The halberd was usually 1.5 to 1.8 metres (5 to 6 feet) long. The word halberd is cognate with the German word Hellebarde, deriving from Middle High German halm (handle) and barte (battleaxe) joined to form helmbarte. Troops that used the weapon were called halberdiers. The word has also been used to describe a weapon of the Early Bronze Age in Western Europe. This consisted of a blade mounted on a pole at a right angle.
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arms and armor
arms
edged weapons
gold
halberds
iron alloy
iron and iron alloy
metal
staff weapons
steel
textiles
philip ii
gift of william h riggs
germany
shafted weapons
halberd
bodyguard
philip
margrave
baden baden
16th century
high resolution
ultra high resolution
3 d object
weapons
renaissance art
metropolitan museum of art
medieval art
german art
Date
1000 - 1500
in collections
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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