Broadsword
TypeSword
OriginScotland/Europe
Era1600s
UsersScottish highlanders, cavalry
About Broadsword
The basket-hilted broadsword protected the hand with a metal cage. Scottish clansmen carried them at Culloden in 1746, the last battle on British soil. The British government banned them afterward, along with tartan and bagpipes. The prohibition lasted 36 years.
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