Channel: Tod's Workshop

Category: Education

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Description: The "Weird Weapons" series continues with Matt Easton and a 'sword axe', pole axe or whatever you want to call it from The British Museum. What is this thing? The simple answer is 'for hitting people', but there are lots of things we don't know about this very rare weapon type, so Matt (who really knows how to use weapons) and I (who know how to make them) chat about it, use it and hit things with it. We don't even really know when it was from; the British Museum piece is dated 1649-53 - But was it? - Royal Armouries date their version with a 300 year spread from 1400-1700. We will come back for a second film with sparring versions. The first 'Weird Weapon' film can be found here youtu.be/MpIPX30v62c If you would like to support this channel, visiting my sites really helps as does signing up to the news letter on the websites, either one is fine Production replica weapons are available here todcutler.com​​ And T shirts and Merch todsworkshop.creator-spring.com Custom pieces are available here todsworkshop.com Lockdown longbow and brigandines youtu.be/DCf-CnjbWcg Schola Gladiatoria can be found here youtube.com/c/scholagladiatoria Brigandine sample by ASH armour-services-historical.co.uk