Also called the Claymore and Claidheamh mòr (Scottish Gaelic word meaning “great sword”). While the name "claymore" came
to refer to the Scottish basket-hilted sword, the broadsword, by the end of the 17th century, the true claymore was a Scottish
two-handed weapon of the 15th and 16th centuries. The two-handed claymore was a huge weapon designed to crush through
armored and unarmored opponents alike. Often as long as six feet from the tip to pommel (the hilt-end of the weapon), special
arrangements were given to those warriors wielding claymores in combat because of the space needed to swing them. The
claymore is characterized by a long, double-edged blade and downward slanting quillons.