Items matching spears

Types of Armour

Explanation of the Plate of Armour No. 1. A Shield called a Roundel. No. 2. A Target. No. 3. A Leaden Mallet, used by the archers, mentioned in the military part of the preface. No. 4. An Iron Mace us [...]

Keywords: armour, weapons, knights, shields, helmets, swords, spears

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Added: 2006-01-11

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November

A portly man sits astride a bearded centaur. The centaur is wearing a helmet and carrying a spear. The mean wears a monk’s tunic and is mopping his tonsured brow. A poem underneath the image: NOVEMBER [...]

Keywords: people, centaurs, spears, monks, calendars, months, november

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Added: 2006-01-09

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193.—Costume of a Soldier. From Cotton MS. Tib. C. 6.

Cotton Manuscript Tiberius C. vi is a psalter from the 11th century. The soldier here has a beard pointy shoes (and striped socks I think), and carries a spear.

Keywords: soldiers, weapons, spears, costumes, beards, clipart

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Added: 2008-06-28

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80.—British and Roman Weapons.

In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to prove that the exact day was the 26th of August), a Roman fleet crossed the Channel, bearing the infantry [...]

Keywords: weapons, swords, shields, helmets, axes, spears

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Added: 2007-08-25

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191.—Arms and costume of the Tribes on the Western Shores of the Baltic.

Two young men are dressed as soldiers, with metal plate armour (or possibly leather armour). One has a spear or javelin, and the other a sword; both have shields and helmets. In th foreground a curv [...]

Keywords: people, soldiers, weapons, spears, shields

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Added: 2009-08-03

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