Jedwart stave
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jedwart-stave-195-17913177
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Jedwart stave
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The Jedwart stave was a polearm weapon commonly found in the Scottish Borders in the 16th century. It consisted of a large, thin, double-edged axe-like blade attached to a roughly four-foot long studded stave with a hand guard, similar in appearance to a bardiche. The upheaval of the sixteenth century in the borders proved the weapon to be too light to be effective against the heavy cavalry of the Border Reivers and attacks from the English, and it fell out of favour in combat. It remained howev
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16th century polearm from the Scottish Borders
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedwart_stave
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2022-04-22T05:21:40Z
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