Large flanged or spiked maces are quite popular in fantasy media, but when you look at real medieval and renaissance era weapons you just see short, single-handed maces. Did two-handed versions (pole maces, if you will) actually exist? We’ll see...
The two-handed LARP mace you see in this video is a longer version of Calimacil’s Odo II:
Testing a polehammer:
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Ceremonial(?) mace from North India, 17thC:
Over 4000 year old spherical mace from Cyprus:
Roughly 2000 year old copper mace from Egypt:
Spiked mace with partisan-like blade:
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