Hi, my name's Kevin Hicks, welcome to my Youtube channel
the History Squad and what we're looking at today is what other weapons of bowman would have carried
outside of his longbow and his arrows, um and you'll see in lots of of the original drawings
different bowmen have this that and the other yeah? So I thought I'd show you what what I have.
Now I'm very lucky, this sword is my old faithful it's a single-handed sword um but
it's not a reenactment blade it's actually a real sword uh it can take an edge. Now just a little
thing about swords, if it makes a ringing noise when you do this
then you've got a good steel blade let me just do it again.
Isn't that great? This is great, I love this sword but if you're in close quarter combat
it's too big so what you do of course you're wearing gloves is you turn it round, smash, stab,
hook but don't forget your bowman isn't standing there on his own having shot all these arrows
and going oh my goodness me they're coming for me. There's normally about 12 bowmen,
they work together a band, a company, a group and one thing that most bowman would carry
is an archer's pick. Now I'm going to bring this closer, this is a solid blade on the back,
sharp on the front and I'll tell you this knife, I've had it for years I really have.
A good old friend of mine, a bowyer actually got this for me, Don Adams,
uh it has a cap on it and there's a reason
yeah and I just need another weapon to show you the reason this has a cap on it and I like this.
So most bowmen would carry a hand axe. This is a nice little bearded axe, it's hand forged,
I have to be careful though it's razor sharp it speaks for itself dunk, oh you're dead yeah?
But if the guy is in full armour you might be going dum dum dum dum. He'll fall on the ground
then you just need to get into the armour, so you find a [ __ ] or a hole
and then you turn your axe around. Ting, ting, ting.
Do you like that sound? Because it could be heard all over the battlefield after the battle,
the bowmen dispatching the dead. These are simple weapons, not every bowman can afford
a sword in fact he might even sell it if he captures one. His bowman's knife, his hand axe,
they are the tools of his trade yeah, but there’s another sword and I'm going to show
you this sword. Now this isn't the fantastic stuff of Todd's Workshop right? I used to have
some of Todd's stuff my son now has it yeah, this is Kev I suppose at his best.
A falchion. Hook it round your back, draw it out and this really does do what it says on the tin.
You can hack somebody to death with this. Now I learned about this particular kind whilst
working at Warwick Castle. I saw a re-enactor and he had one of these and I thought that is uh
dented, it's a little bit rusty, it's very rustic and then I learned that the re-enactor,
ready for this? Had used a machete blade, and I've been meaning to do this for years
because this will really slice, this will really cut. A falchion or as I've heard
some very very posh people from Oxford call it a Falkeon, a simple killing weapon but…
How about this? The bowman carried these for a purpose, it's not just for hacking down
wood and an under brush here. This is really good in close quarter combat, even if a horse is going
for you you can rip out its belly, trip it over, awful stuff isn't it. This is a bill hook and the
bowman often carried them tucked into the back of their belt because it’s razor sharp they can
really cause some damage. Even if you hit a knight in armour under the armpit into the shoulder
you're gonna cause some damage this is a ripping ,hacking tool, a simple farm implement yeah?
and this one
I've had this for years and it is amongst one of my favourite pieces. This is as it looks like,
a dagger, a knife. It's a real blade, it's as sharp as a razor but look at the handle
two balls this is the English bollock knife, bollock is the old Saxon word, so I understand,
for two round things like what a gentleman has. This is for nothing more than killing, it is
a murder weapon and then my last little piece.
The poinard. If you have a knight or a man at arms who is down, he's in full armour, he has
all of the padding underneath you need to be able to get in or you need to be able to go straight
through the eye slits and that's what it's for. You see your bowmen, your English your Welsh
bowmen they were brothers in arms and what they actually were were professional killers. Well I
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