10-16 century arms from Mozir museum of local lore, history and economy. The subjects of this article are two combat axes and a cord from the findings refering to 1980s. Both axes refer to the category of wide-blade axes. The first one...
more10-16 century arms from Mozir museum of local lore, history and economy.
The subjects of this article are two combat axes and a cord from the findings refering to 1980s.
Both axes refer to the category of wide-blade axes. The first one has a blade, drawn off downwards, an extended cut butt and two pairs of side shekovitsas. This axe refers to the axes which were widely spreaded both as combat ones and as universal ones in the whole Eastern Slavonic region in 10 — 13th centuries.
The second axe is an axe with a flat butt drawn off significantly to the handle, butt bush and a hole made in the shape of an ellipse with cut top. The case is of an ordinary type and has an inside cut, The
samples of axes with such signs (flat butt in the first turn) appeared mainly in 15 — 16 centuries.
As for the cord, the authors refer it to the end of 15 th—beginning of 16th century. Its overall dimensions are as follows: total length — 81.3 cm, crossing length — 20.4 cm, blade length — 71.4 cm, blade width near the root — 3.3 cm, handle length — 8.4 cm, handle width —1.8 cm. The blade of the cord is lightly bent, the end of the blade is broken off. The cord has the handle of a nife type, with two holes for rivets. The handle has a right-angled section and is placed assymetricallv with regard to the blade axis, closer to the blade butt. The crossing has an ordinary shape and bears on its ends final elements in the shape of truncated trihedral pyramides. A convex steel plate, made in the shape of the leaf of a sea mussle «comb», is fixed to the crossing by means of forge welding.
