*Flanged* maces?

[Dan Howard]

Maces were everywhere in the Bronze Age. There is a section on them in my book. The earliest metallic weapon ever found is a copper mace from Can Hasan dating to the late 6th millenium. The "disc mace" was unique to Egypt - Its edge concentrates the blow just like a flange does. Vertical fluting in spherical and piriform maces seems to have been an early attempt to make a flanged mace. They start to appear around 3000 BC. Adding knobs was another variation and saw constant use from this period right through to the end of the Middle Ages. The "truncheon mace" was also used. I can't think of any true flanged maces dating any earlier than the Middle Ages. I listed a sample of ten different maces dating to the end of the Bronze Age with all of their measurements and weights.