Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Weapons and Ammunition (hierarchy name)
5. weapons
6. armaments
7. percussive weapons

Anotations

Scope note:

Weapons consisting of a stout handle at the end of which are attached, by means of a chain, two or more iron-clad balls, a short iron-clad bar, or a wooden rod with iron spikes. They date back to at least the 13th century.