An oath skull, German, 16th - 17th century Human skull missing the upper and lower jaw. Dark patination with traces of use. The top of the skull shows five engraved bar-crosses within two circles. Height 13 cm. The vehmic courts reached the height of their power in the 1st half of the 15th century, and in the growing uncertainty in justice took on more and more the character of strictly organised hidden bands of the "wise men", who were bound by oath to their duty of complete secrecy. Although the vehmic courts never resorted to the use of torture, they spread ,

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Keywords: 16th, 17th, arm, arms, century, clipping, clippings, cut, cut-, cut-outs, device, fighting, german, human, metal, militaria, military, missing, oath, object, objects, pole, skull, stills, weapon, weapons