Crescent pike
| Crescent pike | |
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| Information | |
| Weapon type: | Pike, polearm |
| Designations: | Half Moon, Demi Lune |
| Use: | weapon |
| Working time: | about the 16th century to about the 17th century |
| Region of origin / author: |
Spain , military |
| Distribution: | Europe |
| Overall length: | about 200 cm |
| Handle: | Wood |
| Lists on the subject | |
The half moon pike , also half moon , demi lune is a polearm from Spain .
description
The half-moon pike has a straight, wooden shaft. The blade is crescent-shaped, double-edged and pointed on both sides of the blade. The blade is attached to the shaft by means of a socket. It was originally used in Spain and later throughout Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries .
Individual evidence
- ↑ George Cameron Stone , Donald J. LaRocca: A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times. Courier Dover Publications, 1999, page 276, ISBN 978-0-486-40726-5 (reprint).
literature
- Gilbert Alan Shepperd: A history of war and weapons, 1660 to 1918: arms and armor from the age of Louis XIV to World War I. Crowell Verlag, 1972, ISBN 978-0-690-39367-5 , page 220.
- Marc Simmons, Frank Turley: Southwestern colonial ironwork: the Spanish blacksmithing tradition from Texas to California . Publisher Museum of New Mexico Press, ISBN 978-0-89013-128-2 , pages 25, 191.
- Philip Ellaby Cleator: Weapons of War . Crowell Publisher, 1967, pp. 112, 113.
Web links
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