What’s a battle-axe home?

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• Typically battle-axe blocks arise from a larger block of land with a house already on it being subdivided into two smaller blocks - usually with the new house down the back of the existing house ... the long driveway (which may or may not be shared) forms the "handle" of the axe. There have been a lot of these in the northern suburbs of Sydney where blocks are typically large - although I think the councils have tightened up regulations in recent years.

  "n some suburbs of Sydney these type of properties are more common than others. Watch for land sizes, though, as you can be misled thinking a block is big but the handle driveway part actually can add a significant amount to the total block size. A typical 3.5m x 40m driveway can add some 132sqm, for example.

  As an investor, you have to decide if this type of property is right for you. Generally, however, I'd stay away from them as an IP as they tend to take longer to sell and tenants don't always appreciate the fact that, though private, they also lack security for the same reason.

  Some battleaxe blocks are ok, as they are visible from the street, have a relatively short handle (eg cul de sac properties) or an extra wide drive but most of them aren't easily seen from the street and access can be a problem."

• Battle Axe Definition

• Severing limbs was astonishingly rare, in a battle no one had the room (or the stupidity) for a big wind up and swing. The other guy will see it coming. Almost all of the battles were shouting, waving weapons, moving about. No soldier could keep swinging a sword, they are heavy. By most contemporary accounts after the shouting swaying surging waving from the moment of contact to resolution is a matter of maybe five minutes before one side loses it's nerve and backs of. Most casualties were either missile caused or deaths in the rout when a side starts to run away.

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  I doubt a gladuis could amputate a limb in one clean stroke, It would however be able to rip though a forearm and leave it handing on by sinew, (possibly the same with a lower limb) while certainly not designed for slashing, the sheer momentum of the blade will tear skin and muscle, and smash bone, but the blade would not be heavy enough to maintain this momentum all the way though, but the damage it would cause would be horrendous. (it is worth noting that it only takes one pound of pressure to penetrate skin) there are records from Roman times of arm amputations caused in battle, the most notable is Trajan's Column in Rome, it records the Emperor Trajan's invasion of the province that is now modern day Romania, during this invasion the locals used a unique sword, with a very heavy blade, and the romans suffered a lot of men losing their arms when they thrust out of their shield wall only for a local to smash down with the sword, because of this weapon and its use, the romans invented plated arm armour and also adopted this sword (the arm armor and the sword ended up being used by gladiators) weapons like axes (especially axes designed solely for battle) will have a limb off without too much problem, and axes were one of the most common types of weapons in the ancient and dark ages, (because they were far cheaper than swords so far more common) (clearly factors such as armor would have an impact on a weapons ability to actually do this) as for battlefield casualties, while there are numerous examples of battles were one side suffered almost total destruction, these are rare (and mainly due to one side getting surrounded) I can't give you a percentage figure from 11th century battlefields, I can however tell you that during that period the largest losses happened not during the battle but in the immediate aftermath, in the 11th century most armies were still heavily infantry based, and they fought in a formation called 'The Shield wall' as the name suggests the army would form a solid wall of shields behind stacked ranks of spears, the other army would do the same, then one or both armies would advance slowly until their walls came into contact, what followed would be a brutal shoving match with both sides trying to cause the other sides wall to break, (because of the closeness of everyone, it would be thrusts at faces rather than big swings) the real death toll began when one sides wall broke, because it is at this point the army begins to break up into smaller sections which can be overwhelmed in turn, rather than allow this to happen many men would simply turn and run, turning their backs in the chasing enemy, the results should be easy to imagine, what dictated the death toll would be how vigorously the victors pursued the defeated, In 1066 when the Saxons, Vikings and Normans all fought over the throne of England, the Saxons and Vikings met at the battle of Stamford Bridge, two sides fighting in shield wall, the death toll was terrible, 300 Viking Ships landed in England, less than 30 were needed to take the survivors home. (which if we take literally suggests a 90% casualty rate for the vikings) When the Saxons then fought the Normans, the shield wall kept the Normans at bay, (interestingly enough, the Saxons two handed axe could and did remove the heads off Norman horses!) when the shield wall broke the slaughter began, with the Normans riding down the fleeing Saxons, the death toll would have been even worse if not for Harold's personal HouseKarl's (guards) forming a rearguard and took the brunt of the Norman chase (getting wiped out in the process, but undoubtedly saving hundreds of saxon lives)

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