Medieval Mace Heads and Flail Striking Heads of Undetermined Provenience from the Archaeological Museum in Cracow

Abstract

In the old collections of the Archaeological Museum in Cracow, Poland, there is a small group of medieval mace heads and flail striking heads of various forms. A part of them has been published by the author of this article, the rest is still waiting for publication. Here, artifacts of undetermined provenience are presented. We may only guess that they were discovered before the World War II in the Old Ruthenian areas of the modern Ukraine. They are discussed in conformity with the typology of medieval maces and East European flail striking heads elaborated more than a half century ago by Anatoliy Kirpichnikov. Presented specimens of old weapons are not full-value archaeological sources because they are devoid of the archaeological context. For this reason, this short text is only a catalogue supplementing the corpus of medieval mace heads and flail striking heads.