Angon. VIII BC. – X AD.
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The Angon was a Frankish throwing weapon designed to slow down the enemy’s movements and prevent him from controlling his shield during battle.
The angon was a type of dart: the tip with the teeth set back was mounted on a very long and heavy shaft, which, dragging along the ground at a time when the tip bit into the enemy’s shield, deprived or significantly limited his ability to defend himself. If the thrown angon hit the enemy’s body, the curved tip of the tip did not allow it to be pulled out of the wound, and therefore the angon was quite rightly considered the most terrible weapon of the Franks.
The Roman army used a dart called a pilum, and the ancient Russian army used a sulica.
But the roots of this weapon should be sought in the Scythian history.
