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claymore
Also known as Scottish claymore
thumb|Engraving of a claymore and armour at Dunvegan Castle (from Footsteps of Dr. Johnson, 1890).
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- Claymore
- Weapon.image
- File:Two-handed Highland sword.JPG
- Weapon.caption
- 16th-century claymore in the National Museum of Scotland.
- Weapon.type
- Two-handed sword
- Weapon.is_bladed
- yes
- Weapon.is_UK
- yes
- Weapon.used_by
- Highland Scots
- Weapon.weight
- ≈
- Weapon.length
- ≈
- Weapon.part_length
- ≈
- Weapon.blade_type
- Double-edged
- Weapon.hilt_type
- Two-handed cruciform, with pommel
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
7 sectionsContents
- Terminology
- Two-handed (Highland) claymore
- Popular culture references
- See also
- Notes
- References and further reading
- External links
thumb|Engraving of a claymore and armour at Dunvegan Castle (from Footsteps of Dr. Johnson, 1890).
A claymore (; from , "great sword") is either the Scottish variant of the late medieval two-handed sword or the Scottish variant of the basket-hilted sword. The former is characterised as having a cross hilt of forward-sloping quillons with quatrefoil terminations and was in use from the 15th to 17th centuries.