Estoc
Cleveland Museum of Art

Estoc

early 1500s

steel, wood and leather
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Swords like this one were developed to counteract and pierce the increasingly heavy armor and sophisticated plates that nearly covered a knight.

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