This Ancient Mace Hides a Big Surprise! (From

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Adam Savage Wields a Royal Mace: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHbKdWN7fLRpp6c Adam Savage Meets Real Armored Gauntlets: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2qQaoOid5J5Z7s Adam Savage Meets Real Ancient Swords: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXvcoXukqKqhbtE More Met videos: kzbin.info/aero/PLJtitKU0CAeiUv8endzt93QO2_T96n_xe The Met's Arms and Armor Department: www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/arms-and-armor

[@FEWFWEF-z2x]

We need more Museum stuff with Adam!

[@tested]

More coming!

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

​@@tested More coming, but never enough.😉 Adam should just go LIVE in the museum!🤣

[@artfx9]

@@tested Mr.T, bring it! 👁👄👁

[@SawThumbz]

Space suits, armour, etc, with out doubt the best content, "Savage" is extremely knowledgeable, and his museum visits/ tours, are my particular favourites.

[@opieangst]

@@tested define "more" please? Like, 100 episodes? or closer to 10? 😭😭 We'll take anything tbh.

[@RevUnstableBoy]

the fact the curator knew to hide the last one just to get Adam's reaction says he pays attention. thank you for that one.

[@tested]

Sean is AWESOME.

[@patrickdiehl6813]

I will never tire of seeing Adam in this environment. His enthusiasm is contagious 💯 Not to mention getting a history lesson that's more than enjoyable 👍

[@shaun3276]

As a museum worker, I love hearing the awkward “sorry” heard in the background of the close ups, suggesting Adam is playing with the objects too much. 😂

[@annwagner5779]

Hey, fellow museum person! There is, by the way, also a Smithsonian mace.

[@robertrobert7924]

@@annwagner5779 NMAI, Smithsonian 2000-2004 here. I cannot believe Adam was actually allowed to swing the cowhead mace.

[@aethelfreda]

​@@robertrobert7924then again it's presumed 19thC provenance means that it is less of an issue. I'd still be very nervous about it though. One would hope that they were prepared in case he lost his grip. The other exhibits are far too valuable (as an item) for swinging around.

[@jimmipadge]

*_ALWAYS_* thoroughly enjoy watching these Arms & Armor visits!

[@SmokeRingsPipeDreams]

Man is a fascinating creature. He makes a weapon intended to bash someone's skull in and therefore kill them, but he also makes that item beautiful.

[@DG-iw3yw]

Caught between angelism and apeism

[@peterbear4413]

Marketing. Are you going to buy a stick that looks ugly, or a stick that looks cool?

[@SirWonkotheSane]

The paradox of the beautiful weapon.

[@starchitin]

The look of pure joy on Adam's face when he swings the cow headed mace is priceless. I wish youTube had more content like that.

[@Colesign]

Wasn't there a hero with a cow-headed mace who defeated Zahhak the Serpent King in Iranian Mythology?

[@darrinrebagliati5365]

As a frame of reference: I sharpened a railroad spike once and welded it to a 30in piece of3/4in rebar, for use as an oilpan piercer in a wrecking yard. We couldn't swing it at the oilpan tho, it could do too much damage inside the motor. We had to hold it up and hit it with a hammer.

[@SHAGG13]

We did the same thing to drain gas tanks at the wrecking yard..... With a pick axe 😂❤🎉

[@darrinrebagliati5365]

@SHAGG13 we had a spike in a oil tank that the crushers would spike the gas tanks when they were in. Mostnof the time we had drained them for the yard trucks but....

[@peckenstein]

Love this content! All the MET content is top notch and I can't wait for more.

[@tested]

So many more videos!!!!

[@jurtheorc8117]

I dearly love that cow-headed mace and the sound it makes. It's like a sleepy gibbon just waking up. "whoop."

[@lc3853]

There it is.

[@alhutchison1535]

Well there's something I never knew I wanted...a cow-headed mace!

[@tested]

LOL

[@jellybull]

Bovine pimp cane.

[@zipperpillow]

It's a "Bull's head", not a "cow's head" city boy. It comes from an old story in Iran, called the Shahnameh.

[@sw-gs]

This video is more informative than 90% of school trips to any museum.

[@tested]

That's super lovely to say, thank you.

[@sw-gs]

@@tested For real, I'm 30 years old and only now while watching your videos and many other videos of people who are fascinated and passionate about their hobbies I've learnt more, than from all trips I had in my high school to any museum and listening of bored guides and historians that work there on daily basis.

[@starchitin]

@@sw-gs If you haven't found them on your own already, I'd suggest looking up Tod's Workshop and scholagladiatoria. Both channels have quite a bit of content about historical weapons and armor and the hosts are every bit as passionate about their areas of expertise as Adam is.

[@johnderoy916]

For the full effect I think you need to spin that last mace like a baton or martial arts weapon ... really let it go round and round several times really fast.

[@corrinastanley125]

Some of those hollowed types were used by people riding animals and made a noise that could carry for miles. It would scare the peasants who would know bad things are coming their way.

[@francesconicoletti2547]

They need to get a drum major in there and let her play with it.

[@ZesPak]

​@@francesconicoletti2547just attach it to a spinning thingy

[@koenvaneeckhoutte5014]

This curator is awesome! Passionate about the works and very knowledgeable

[@VagabondTexan]

The "Shut-up Stick". LOL, what a great description of the mace.

[@SHAGG13]

Similar to the "minority act right" stick carried by 90s LAPD 😂😂

[@aurysage3043]

Adam's enthusiasm is always delightful. Face smashing items that are also works of art. Fantastic.

[@ss181292]

You KZbinrs have the unique opportunity to take priceless museum artifacts in hands and show (and preserve the picture... and occasionally swing) the details to the world. Something not possible for ordinary person.

[@tested]

We consider ourselves very very lucky, truly.

[@DG-iw3yw]

The guarding of knowledge from the public is an ambivalent subject. They deserve to know but lack the responsibility to preserve or resepect

[@FENomadtrooper]

This just makes me want to see him collaborate with his British counterpart: Tod of Tods Workshop. Who's semi-retired from TV to do med-evil mythbusting on youtube.

[@benjaminblakemore9704]

These are my favorite segments of tested videos!😊❤

[@tested]

We’re so delighted! More Met videos to come!

[@samsilly123456]

I love Adam's joy. Its not an annoying type of joy, its an infectious type. His joy makes me so happy but it also makes me sad cause of how much i miss mythbusters.

[@DG-iw3yw]

Yeah. At least 70% of people who experience joy are sooo annoying omg

[@teacherdamiansus4]

Your face when it whistles is hilarious. You so happy and it makes me happy. I wish there could be a comedy offshoot of mythbusters where it’s just muppets of you and Jamie busting muppet myths. Like is there a Moopet for every Muppet😂

[@tested]

It was a true surprise. Sean knows us well, and he'd kept it hidden, as you saw!

[@teacherdamiansus4]

@@tested how nice of you to reply. I wish I was as handy and creative as you guys.😊

[@TribalGuitars]

This video is so good! What I really love about it is that it takes me back to my D&D days and I'd run a cleric character and they can't use edged weapons but they can use a hammer. So I'd use a "footsman's hammer" (much like that broken poleaxe in the video) and 9/10 times I'd win any challenge about using it because it was clearly labeled with the word "hammer". 😆

[@DasGanon]

I can totally imagine the person who commissioned or received that mace having the same reaction as Adam when they got it.

[@tested]

Right?

[@KaiHouston-m6j]

I hope no servants were slain, just out of joy from swinging it!

[@DG-iw3yw]

@KaiHouston-m6j Who knows. Samurai used to test new swords on prisoners and "criminals" (back then in japan you didnt really need to be a criminal just poor and unlucky)

[@youremakingprogress144]

One of the things I love about Adam is that he always takes such delight in whatever he's doing or talking about. His enthusiasm makes every video so much more engaging and entertaining.

[@colinwebb5018]

Adam brings such joy to whatever he does and is always a kind person to who he works with. 100% happy time

[@alexstewart839]

F Yeah more content from the Met! I'm happy to watch a wide variety of Tested videos, but the Met Arms and Armor stuff is absolutely my favorites.

[@jeffreyhoadley5697]

This just made my weekend!!! This series is absolutely my favorite that he does. Thanks to adam the met and all of their teams ❤

[@Harley-D-Mcdonald]

There's nothing better than a good museum. I can spend all day looking. I can only dream of a private tour that allows me to touch history. Love it

[@86fifty]

Yeessss, I love seeing behind the scenes of this place! Everyone on camera is just SO happy to be there! And there's something so relatable, across such long spans of time, about the idea that the most important thing a man of might would want memorialized is, "I was here and I had a big stick" :D

[@tested]

We absolutely love visiting the Met, and we cannot WAIT to go back.

[@Albanus35]

I can't understand, why do I love these stuff, dude? Could you please show us some more...

[@tested]

More to come!

[@danielland3767]

Ahhh the MET museum, Adam is the real life history Channel show for me...

[@tested]

We’re honored!

[@danielland3767]

@@tested I quote Adam from his Livestreams all the time!

[@jaded_gerManic]

These chats with experts and examples are my favorites (along with the cool builds)! I will need to commission a beautiful 'shut up stick' for my OC build. 🤩

[@johnsullivan6560]

Breaking armor joints would be bad, but I would think even bending a plate on a joint would seriously impede its ability to flex! Chain would provide no real protection from a mace or a hammer! Very nice.

[@HumbleWooper]

Absolutely, even big dents in the wrong place could be disastrous for movement. A dent on the outside = a bump on the inside.

[@wilfriedklaebe]

A hole pierced with the pointy beak would not only impede movement, it would also extend into skin and muscle, and that would hurt a lot.

[@johnsullivan6560]

@@wilfriedklaebe possibly but they wore thick padding under the armor to cushion any blows. It varied depending on where, being thinner at joints. So, yes, pierced joints would cause more injury.

[@DG-iw3yw]

Perhaps no real protection, but clearly felxible aromour could save your life...Cats have very loose skin because it actually helps them prevent wounds by other animals, so maybe there is something to it...

[@shawnr746]

Hitting the joints or causing a concussion would've been the way to go with a mace or spike. Maille provides more protection from blunt force than you might think, due to the mass and flexibility it absorbs energy the same way a bag of sand or lead shot would. Still better to have plates though.

[@cblair1353]

Adam, you have got to make a replica of that whistling cow mace at the end; it's incredibly amazing! Even something like a 3D print would be cool.

[@thegodofhellfire]

So glad your back at the MET!

[@HankHammer-cp5px]

If it whistled that much by Adam swinging it lightly, could you imagine a weapons master whirling it in circles? If an armored knight came at me with a weapon that whistled as it spun at my face, I would flee in terror immediately. That's psychological warfare, no doubt about it.

[@theowittig4644]

Now I need a video of Adam wailing on things with a crow's beak. Looks gnarly.

[@stoatystoat174]

08:51 "Malice Aforethought" is the phrase that sprung to mind looking at the very practical crow beak on the saxon war hammer

[@christopherpardell4418]

How you drill a long hole thru quartz. You take a long thin rod, it can be wood, cane, or metal. You coat the end of it with something sticky like hot wax or tar. You roll the end in crushed garnet, or some other very hard and very common gemstone. And then you start spinning the rod against the quartz, Mostly, you might just spin with your fingers, or you might set up a bow drill. In later years you might use something like a water mill to spin your drill. When doing it by hand, you have to frequently pull the rod out and reapply more wax and garnet, then go back at it. And you better have patience. When I hear people marvel and suspect that ancient cultures must have had some ‘lost technology’ to carve such hard materials as crystal and granite, I explain to them, they used the exact same technology we Still use today. They carved very hard rock by RUBBING a harder rock against it. A diamond drill is nothing but a piece of metal with crushed diamonds stuck to it. We just use motors to speed up the actual rubbing. Back in that era, before glass blowing became a thing, artisans would make goblets and stemware out of quartz. Imagine the time it took to hollow out the bowl of a thin walled crystal goblet? In that era if you served someone wine in such a glass, they knew they were holding a year or more of some craftsman’s life in the their hand. This is how ‘crystal’ came to have the connotation with wealth that it has.

[@wilfriedklaebe]

Also, you first drill the hole into a bigger piece and then you turn that piece down to the required diameter.

[@DG-iw3yw]

Exactly this. This also worked for the egyptians. Sand has miniature diamond and other particles that cut right through granite and other stones. Water and an aggregate like silica carbide is all you need!

[@lotuselanplus2s]

That cow headed mace though. When you can hear the blow comming before you actually get hit. Must make one rethink their choices...

[@RowanHawkins]

Not much time for thinking unless someone else is being hit. Though I don't see the nostrils section surviving many actual blows. Thick metal which could survive blows would need to be cast, because you can't braise thick blocks easily even now. If it were solid it would've been ponderous to swing repeatedly. Imagine needing to swing it once every 2 seconds for a half hour.

[@DG-iw3yw]

@RowanHawkins Depends on the target. If it is to bully unarmoured farmers, i think you could probably use it indefinitely

[@LH782]

The cow-head-mace IS a sort of fantasy prop: Sean said so "..19th century idea of what that would have looked like"

[@jimmipadge]

Well-preserved authentically antique bronze/iron/steel weapons are such amazing artifacts- it’s a shame how few of the _finest_ works of “functional art” survive the test of time..

[@samuelmellars7855]

An add-on to this is that almost no "low status" or ordinary, unornate, simple, just-meant-for-work items get preserved. Almost none of the worst pieces of pure function survive the ages. The fancy ones people say "oh, that's too nice to reforge/remake/use as a prop/throw away" and keep, but the plain ones get used, abused, broken and made into other things, melted down for scrap and so on

[@DG-iw3yw]

@samuelmellars7855 Exactly this. Probably a big part of why we dont find so many stoneworking copper from egypt, it was all reused!

[@jeromethiel4323]

Always been a huge fan of flanged maces. They just seem to be a simple weapon that works on unarmored and armored foes. But my first choice if i had to choose a medieval weapon, would be a spear. Reach is good!

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

Adam, THIS is the residency for you! Public educator at the museum!😍

[@Rawkdoc]

All I keep thinking is: "move the rock crystal mace away!" *visions of any of the other maces falling out of Adam's hands*

[@mac.jenkin]

So cool to wonder about forgotten stories and providence of these objects.

[@Lethgar_Smith]

People often confuse a mace with the similar looking weapon of a spiked ball on a short chain attached to a wooden handle. This is actually called a flail. In the Lord of the Rings movie The Return of the King, the Witch King of Angmar is shown wielding a ridiculous flail. The book describes a large "iron mace" It is essentially a metal club. I imagined it looking like an iron shaft with a perfectly smooth large round ball on the end. Too heavy for a mortal to wield but for the Witch King, it deals a deadly blow.

[@Kaiyanwang82]

Perhaps since Sauron already had a mace they didn't want to confuse a casual viewer, especially since the Witch King is sporting an intentionally Sauron-like armor in that moment.

[@RowanHawkins]

A flail is part of the mace family. I've heard it called a detached mace. As I see it, the flail is a less useful item. While it can potentially reach past a blocking shield it looses velocity in the process. It is harder to get moving in the first place, and controlling its path is harder. I bet you could get 2-3 solid hits in with a regular mace in the time that it took you to try to use a flail.

[@kadirbeneathmomoteh854]

oh this is so exciting, war hammers and picks were always the most badass medieval weapons to me!

[@londonkiltmanreview1955]

Adam, I would love to see you attempt to make which I know we could one of those cow Macy’s one that you can swing and make the full noise and not be afraid of breaking

[@MattHaugh]

3D print a prototype.

[@bobbressi5414]

When Adam makes a face like a 4-year-old you know he is having a great day!

[@puffherb]

Absolutely fascinating. We don't give our ancestors enough credit.

[@DG-iw3yw]

Ancestors? Dont make me laugh. This was done by giant aliens, or sound technology from the lizard folk. Obviously far more likely.

[@shaunlennon2429]

The noise from the cow headed mace was both satisfying and not at the same time! Satisfying that it made a noise but not because it wasn’t as resonating as expected; kind of like getting a new car and realising the horn sounds like a clowns nose.

[@DG-iw3yw]

Really its meant to go "whooop, BONNNNG"

[@nazarnovitsky9868]

Big thanks for such interesting video , Adam !!! 😊

[@ChaitanyaShukla2503]

You need to visit Deccan college and Phule musuem in Pune(India) for their weapons collections.

[@user-fk8zw5js2p]

That rock crystal mace was spectacular.

[@dcarter001]

You get to play with the best stuff! Please keep it up!

[@BelgarionDoUrden]

Well... Now we only need a "one day build" of the cow head mace

[@n0bl3hunt3r]

I love that Adam approaches the weapons from a maker’s point of view

[@UncleManuel]

This episode was a-mace-ing! 😁🤘

[@tested]

Oh, NICELY done!

[@wilfriedklaebe]

@@tested Yeah, this deserves to be hammered home.

[@RowanHawkins]

​@@testedstrike while the iron is hot!

[@daufy954]

the sound the cow-headed mace makes is so cartooney i love it! the maker was obviously thinking of slapstick.

[@darrinplank]

From my research of pike poles/ pole arms, originally used by boaters to help reach and hook stuff, adopted during Roman times when shield walls were a thing to hook shields or reach over the shield walls throughout the ages to reach out and touch you. When I was in the SCA we used them when you were several deep to break the shield wall or get the guys behind it. Currently as a firefighter we use pike poles to pull ceiling

[@StarkIller-df7gw]

We need more of these videos 📹 with cool armour & weapons from the past! Very cool, love the cow 🐄 🔨 hammer! 😂😂😂

[@helenayoung6652]

Just watched this whilst commuting to work, and LOL'd at your reactions at the end. PS see you soon at Adelaide Supanova 😊

[@PrestonSmithsMusic]

That whistling swing was absolutely amazing. Getting smacked with that would leave a memory of a whoop sound.

[@Anonymous-rh9hk]

I'd love to see something smoking stuffed inside that cow-headed mace so smoke comes out of the nose and ears. Adam should make a replica and add a smoke machine into it!

[@DG-iw3yw]

Behold the mace bong

[@bearformdruid]

I love how Adam, who use the term Holy Cow a lot, got to handle the "Holy Cow" mace of Shahnama.

[@bruncle_bob4582]

16:21 I see you killed the cow king in Diablo lol

[@robbokeys]

“Holy cow” perfect line 😂

[@PerilousPaddy]

One thing the curator didn't mention that a lot of reenactment fighters know for a fact is that maces and hammers were used to crush the articulated parts of the armor thereby locking that limb joint in place rendering that arm or leg totally immobile. If you land the right hits on your opponents they can be turned into essential just statues and so wouldn't be able to defend themselves any further and they would forfeit the fight to save themselves from additional damage or be forced to remove the armour during the fight in order to continue.

[@dathat555]

I see a 3D-printed cow-head mace in the future.

[@cruejones742]

Xur's mace scepter from The Last Starfighter is still my favorite.

[@kutter_ttl6786]

It's been awhile since I've seen the film, but it had a retractable spike, right? That's a pretty cool feature.

[@MrMegaDanila]

Always love the historical Tested videos!

[@justinbanks2380]

I can't imagine how terrified the curator and any from the museum would be seeing someone swing that to get the whistle sound 😅😮

[@nec3f]

We breezed right past the 'how did someone, 500 years ago, drill a hole through stone crystal" question. I'm genuinely interested. It seems like that would be a difficult job even today. Most of the ways I can think of would get you in trouble if (when) the hole starts drifting off center. My best guess is some type of hand powered hammer drill setup, maybe with the bit running down a metal tube that would be advanced with it to help keep it centered.

[@DG-iw3yw]

Answer found in comments "How you drill a long hole thru quartz. You take a long thin rod, it can be wood, cane, or metal. You coat the end of it with something sticky like hot wax or tar. You roll the end in crushed garnet, or some other very hard and very common gemstone. And then you start spinning the rod against the quartz, Mostly, you might just spin with your fingers, or you might set up a bow drill. In later years you might use something like a water mill to spin your drill. When doing it by hand, you have to frequently pull the rod out and reapply more wax and garnet, then go back at it. And you better have patience." This is true, alot of the "impossible" ancient egyptian stonework was done using a simple aggregate, water and a driving tool tipped with copper to achieve the "impossibly accurate" stonework that they did (Also plenty of examples of botched and mistaken stonework from those times. Sort of makes you see that no, egyptians didnt use aliens or sound technology to cut stones or whatever...

[@TheSchmuck01]

It's such a delicate little "...oooh!" sound that it's comical coming from a crushing weapon like that

[@TheEudaemonicPlague]

Watching Adam swing that cow-headed mace is hilarious. Each swing, he reacts like it's the first time, he's just so delighted with it. But I want that thing. I have no use for it at all, not even to show off...I just want it.

[@RightOnJonCrane]

Absolutely amazing! I love these segments!

[@Shorefox]

"This sticks a round!" Lololol 😂 3:26

[@bmcquillan]

I'll bet that if you stand in a breeze on a hill or gallop on horseback carrying the cow-headed mace it would moan eerily and continuously. (Yeah, I want one!)

[@jasonsummit1885]

You mentioned a swagger stick. I have one that my uncle brought back from Vietnam that was carved by a NVA POW during the war.

[@Rubrickety]

"This sticks around." Also, "This stick's around."

[@notahotshot]

Also,"This stick's a round."

[@Bayan1905]

One of my favorite weapons hands down is the wooden ball headed club used by the Indigenous tribes here in the Northeast US. I've seen a few originals in museums and I know several tribe members who have made reproductions pretty much like they used to do 300-400 years ago and they are a terrifying weapon in the hands of an angry warrior. As someone who has Mohawk ancestry myself, trying to imagine one in the hands during close combat. Most are highly decorative because they were very personal to the person who carried them and so no two were alike.

[@END5075]

Interesting thought about the cow-headed mace, since it "whistles" instead of "moos" when swung. Keeping in mind its command identity, could the mace be swung in circles from horseback, keeping the whistling motion going? This could have been used by nobles as a 2-in-1 "command whistle mace" to not have to blow a separate horn for field command, or to rally nearby troops without dropping weapon or shield. I wonder how loud it would get if swung around really fast...

[@jeromethiel4323]

The one with the broken handle looks like a "Bec de Corbin," to me. Nasty weapons; part spear, part hammer, part pick. A phalanx of soldiers with these would just do a LOT of damage.

[@hamonthecob]

I'd be fascinated to know if that cow-headed mace mightve been swung around and around one-handed to really get that whistle going. I imagine that could have a cool effect on whomever the wielder is trying to hype up or intimidate. Standing, it might hit the ground, but on horseback, I bet it could be done quite effectively.

[@donaldneill4419]

Love these arms and armour videos!

[@tested]

Next one is slated for Monday!

[@whyitmatterstome]

That would be one way to ensure the veracity of witnesses - giving them the same sentence as those they accuse - what a brutal but effective judiciary system.

[@padalan2504]

On the Bayeux Tapestry, the maces aren't just a symbol of command, they are also a symbol of mercy and the bishop would be required to not use a sharp weapon, in order to preserve life as much as he can instead of being focused on killing. He's also riding a donkey instead of a horse, so he's purposefully putting himself at a disadvantage for symbolic/religious purposes.

[@ashandkenzmorris]

I would adore to see adam recreate or create his own version of some of these weapons

[@magpiemagpie6607]

Again awesome story parts. Thanks a lot.

[@jsmith1174]

This stuff is stunning and has always intrigued me.

[@CoperliteConsumer]

I could watch this all day.

[@Jackalgirl]

Hans Talhoffer -- the judicial combat illustrations are *amazing*. The illustrations of judicial combat between a man and a woman (he's in a hole in the ground up to his chest, armed with a knife; she's got a big rock tied up in her veil, both of them are in what can only be described as "combat onesies")...INTENSE

[@DG-iw3yw]

Lol. I wonder what the stats were on those fights. I have a feeling the women usually won simply because they probably had far more cause for being upset

[@artfx9]

Moooorning!

[@anomnomnomynous]

the sheer joy on adam's face from the cow mace whoooo sound 😂

[@Styphon]

I can imagine the bull mace making the sound from a child's "moo" toy every time it is moved up or down. Ou est la boeuf? 💥

[@praktika1082]

If ever I should start requiring the use of a cane to walk around, I'd want a cow headed cane.

[@StormEngineer]

You should see some of the ancient Indian weapons. My favorite is a warhammer shaped like a hand grabbing a piece of slightly curved animal horn. There are also axes shaped like elephants. They are amazing!

[@MikeBeltMikeBelt]

That's moognificent!

[@tested]

LOL

[@kevinlytle6215]

Wow that cow headed mace was just a treat!

[@tested]

Right???