Would this be able tò deflect a Blow from a bronze sword?
>>64559067Yes.
>>64559067probably but if those are actual stone masks they're going to be heavy as balls.
No because it's sandstone. A good punch will shatter them so long as the neolithic shaman magic doesn't kill you first.
>>64559067only once
>>64559311I think you seriously underestimate the wise men of your village if you think the spirits will not harden the stone against all enemies.
>>64559449I mean, why settle for anything less than arrow proof skin and invisibility if you're going to get a mask made by you gr- I mean spirits.
related note, because i dont want to start a new thread...Anyone have images of info on "Irish Halberd"s? they may also be called "atlantic Halberd"s.They seem to be something like an axe length handle with a triangular copper blade similar to an adze? idk chalcolithic items seem to be somewhat hard to research as well as archeologists and anthropologists not using "halberd" in the way we might.also OP you dont want those masks they may turn you into a vampire.
>>64559067How was it fired?
>>64560945If it is normal clay; Yes; once.If it was carved from igneous or metamorphic, maybe more than one, depends on blow, thickens and composition. Sedimentary? One per area. Probably get cut more from the shards of the blow than the blow itself.
No.64559067>they are reglious masksyes at least 2 or 3 strikes.
>>64559067It would be extremely painful.
>>64559067Sandstone has a Mohs hardness of 6-7. Bronze is 3-4. Sandstone is much harder than bronze, but as other posters have laid out, also a lot more brittle. So if someone slashed you across the face with a bronze blade? It very well might stop you from being cut, but if they got a good impact in? Probably would break your mask. That being said? The things almost certainly offered some pretty decent impact protection against the first blow. Also in this era slings were a huge thing, so it would probably stop a fatal skull fracture. Just once though. Also would still, as others have said, be super heavy. Were these used in combat? Or are they ceremonial?
