woodworking and battle axe boundary lines blur as many soldiers, especially archers & engineers took their trusty home and/or work axes with them to perform camp chores as well as assisting in fortifications and in battle. archers especially use their axes to cut , drive and sharpen the anti-cavalry stakes they preferred (one of the axes pictured in the ref. link, is shown carried over the shoulder, by an archer - he has his longbow with him.) to me it looks like a smaller version of a headsman's axe. germans especially were fond of using the axe as a multipurpose tool. they issued the same axe to the wehrmacht and the kriegsmarine for entrenching and boarding axes respectively in the 19c-20c. it did not look like this one
2nd January 2016, 11:12 AM
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