Cavalry
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This helmet is patterned after a cavalry find from Xanten, ancient Colonia Ulpia Traiana, a significant Roman military base and later colonia on the Rhine frontier in modern Germany. Xanten’s archaeological record spans centuries of Roman military presence, making it one of the richest sources of Roman equipment finds along the entire Rhine frontier. As cavalry equipment, it reflects the specialised gear developed for mounted troops, distinct in construction and decoration from standard legionary infantry helmets.
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Australian Light Horse Sword
SKU: AH3481A sword of the British pattern issued to the Australian Light Horse from mid-1918 — worth noting directly that this was not the sword of the famous 1917 charge at Beersheba, a popular point of confusion, since the Light Horse at that battle were not sword-equipped at all.
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British Pattern 1788 Heavy Cavalry Sword
SKU: AH6994The first attempt by the British Army to standardise cavalry swords, introduced in 1788 in two forms — one for light cavalry, one for heavy — a full decade before its far more famous 1796 successor refined the concept.
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Roman Draco, Cavalry Dragon Standard
SKU: AH6799The draco, a dragon or serpent standard of the Roman cavalry, was carried by an officer known as the draconarius, serving the cohort much as the aquila served the whole legion.
Adopted into Roman use from Sarmatian and Dacian cavalry by the 2nd century AD, the draco’s metal head and windsock-like fabric body caught the air as a rider moved, creating both a striking visual display and a genuinely intimidating hissing sound on the battlefield. By the 4th century, Vegetius records that each legionary cohort had its own draco.
This reproduction recreates that dramatic late Roman cavalry standard, part of our Roman heritage range.
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Cavalry Half Armour
SKU: AH6133As plate armour spread through the 15th century, mounted troops below the rank of fully harnessed knight often wore a half armour, combining a breastplate and upper body protection without the complete leg harness of a knight. This cavalry half armour recreates that practical standard, offering meaningful torso protection suited to mounted combat while remaining lighter and less costly than a full knightly harness. It reflects the reality that plate armour existed across a real spectrum of coverage, not solely as the fully articulated suits associated with the wealthiest knights.
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Household Cavalry-Style Cuirass, with Belt
SKU: AH4405Unlike the medieval knight’s breastplate, this cuirass draws on a later tradition: the ceremonial breastplates worn by Britain’s Household Cavalry, adapted after the Battle of Waterloo from historical cuirasses held in the Tower of London.
The Life Guards and the Blues and Royals have worn this polished-plate, brass-trimmed style on ceremonial duty ever since, most visibly at Horse Guards Parade and the Changing of the Guard. This reproduction comes complete with leather backing and a white belt.
Deepeeka’s reproduction recreates that recognisable parade-cavalry silhouette, part of our British heritage range.
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Athenian Cavalry Slashing Sword (Kopis)- Falcata
SKU: AH4237WThe wood-handled companion to Deepeeka’s Athenian cavalry Kopis — the same EN45 high carbon steel forward-curving blade with the same swift, responsive character, paired with carved wooden grip halves steel-riveted directly to the thick blade tang for a solid, functional hilt in the organic material tradition of ancient Greek sword construction.
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The Athenian cavalry Kopis — the forward-curving single-edged slashing sword favoured by Greek horsemen after the 5th century BC, as recommended by Xenophon himself in his treatise On Horsemanship. This horn-handled version reflects the organic materials used in the finest surviving Greek Kopis examples, its solidly riveted horn hilt providing a secure grip for the powerful downward cuts that made the Kopis the preferred mounted sword of the Classical world.
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Light Cavalry Sword – British Pattern 1821
SKU: AH3215NThe British Pattern 1821 Light Cavalry Sword was the standard sidearm of the British light cavalry — hussars, lancers and light dragoons — through one of the most dramatic periods in British military history. From post-Napoleonic garrison duty through the Indian campaigns and the Crimean War, it was the blade at the hip of the most romantically celebrated soldiers of the Victorian era.
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Roman Spatha – 2nd Century Cavalry Sword
SKU: AH4221CKA research-based interpretation of the 2nd century Roman Spatha developed in collaboration with historian Christian Koepfer — capturing the sword at the moment of its transition from auxiliary cavalry sidearm to army-wide standard. The 2nd century CE represents the Spatha at its most developed before the later refinements of the 3rd and 4th centuries, and Koepfer’s research grounds this in specific archaeological evidence rather than generalised approximation.
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The Shashka is one of the most distinctive cavalry blades in history — a guardless, slightly curved single-edged sabre that originated among the mountain tribes of the Caucasus and went on to become the defining sidearm of the Russian Cossacks and, eventually, the entire Russian Imperial cavalry. Its name comes from the Circassian for ‘long knife.’ Its character is pure Caucasus — fast, fluid, deadly, and requiring considerable skill to master.
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British Pattern 1796 Light Cavalry Sabre
SKU: AH3317One of the most recognisable sabres of the Napoleonic Wars, designed by cavalry officer John Gaspard Le Marchant after he grew frustrated with the clumsy, over-long swords British light cavalry carried into the Low Countries campaign of 1793–95.
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Pattern 1912 British Cavalry Officer’s Sword
SKU: AH3233The officer’s counterpart to the Pattern 1908 trooper’s sword, sharing the same single-minded thrust-focused design that made the pairing the final and most refined expression of British cavalry swordsmanship.
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The Roman Cavalry Spatha was the longer sidearm of the Imperial cavalry — adopted first from Celtic and Germanic auxiliary horsemen and progressively replacing the Gladius across the entire army through the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE. This early Imperial version, complete with a baldric for mounted carry, represents the sword at the beginning of its long dominance over the Roman military.
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1st Century Roman Cavalry Helmet
SKU: AH6375Roman cavalry helmets of the 1st century AD were typically distinguished from infantry patterns by rounder profiles and, on the finest examples, decorative flourishes suited to a mounted trooper's higher status. Cavalry units, often recruited from allied and provincial populations accomplished in horsemanship, formed an essential complement to Rome's infantry-heavy legions. Surviving cavalry helmet finds, including elaborately decorated sports and parade versions, give historians insight into both the practical and ceremonial equipment mounted troops carried.
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15th Century Cavalry War Axe
SKU: AH4126A single-handed cavalry war axe replica of a design dating to around 1460, carrying cross-shaped cut-outs on the blade and an armour-piercing back spike — a compact, mounted-warrior's counterpart to the longer-hafted infantry poleaxe.
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German Army Sub-Officer Cavalry Sword
SKU: AH3131A sword reflecting the German military's long attachment to the sword as a symbol of officer and senior NCO status, an attachment that persisted well beyond any practical battlefield function through the Imperial, Weimar, and National Socialist eras.
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Pattern 1908 British Cavalry Sword
SKU: AH3481NOften called the most effective cavalry sword ever designed, the Pattern 1908 was the last service sword ever issued to British cavalry — built purely for the thrust from horseback, arriving just as swords themselves were becoming obsolete on the battlefield.
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British Royal Cavalry Sword
SKU: AH3215A basket-hilted British cavalry sword from the same post-Napoleonic Wars generation of ‘cut and thrust’ patterns that succeeded the purely cut-focused 1796 sabre, built with both cutting and thrusting capability in mind.
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A British light cavalry sword reflecting the post-Napoleonic Wars shift toward ‘cut and thrust’ patterns — a deliberate compromise design succeeding the purely cut-focused 1796 sabre once battlefield experience showed the value of a genuine thrusting capability too.
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Dutch Cavalry Sword
SKU: AH3420A basket-hilted Dutch cavalry sword — worth correcting directly that despite older listing copy describing this as a Medieval piece, its full-tang construction and basket-hilt guard place it firmly within the 18th-19th century European cavalry sword tradition, not the Middle Ages.
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18th Century European Cavalry & Naval Sword
SKU: AH4227A sword pattern reflecting the type carried by both cavalry and naval officers across 18th century Europe, its brass hilt a common fitting choice for military swords of the period.
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Late Roman Cavalry Helmet
SKU: AH6715NBy the late 3rd century AD, Roman helmet design underwent a genuine break from centuries of Celtic-influenced tradition, adopting new forms derived from Rome's Sassanid Persian rivals encountered on the eastern frontier. Cavalry-specific helmets of this later period, sometimes called Berkasovo-type after a significant find, are generally understood as more elaborate officer and cavalry equipment compared to plainer infantry patterns. This shift reflects the wider transformation of the Late Roman military as new threats and new influences reshaped virtually every aspect of Roman equipment.
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Ribchester Cavalry Sports Helmet
SKU: AH6713The Ribchester helmet takes its name from the Roman fort of Bremetennacum in Lancashire, England, where it was discovered in 1796 as part of a hoard of Roman cavalry equipment. Its elaborate embossed decoration and face-mask visor identify it as cavalry sports equipment, used in the ceremonial mounted displays and mock exercises known as the hippika gymnasia rather than everyday battlefield gear. Now held in the British Museum, it remains one of the best-known and most visually striking examples of Roman parade armour ever recovered from Britain.
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This helmet adds a solid brass face mask to the standard Imperial Gallic construction, transforming an infantry pattern into cavalry sports and parade equipment. Face-mask helmets like this one are strongly associated with Roman cavalry sports and ceremonial displays known as the hippika gymnasia, elaborate mounted exercises performed before an audience rather than everyday battlefield equipment. The mask's idealised human features, a hallmark of this style, transformed the wearer into an almost theatrical figure, a visual spectacle as much as protective gear.
