Highlands 3 Ball Flail Mace

The military flail is a hand weapon in which the handle is attached to the striking part of weapon by a flexible chain or cord.

Throughout the Middle-Ages, agricultural flails were sometimes employed as an improvised weapon by peasant armies conscripted into military service or engaged in popular uprisings.

16th century peasant rebels.  For example, in the 1420-1434 period, the Hussites fielded large numbers of peasant foot soldiers armed with flails. These weapons often featured anti-personnel studs or spikes embedded in the striking end, so they were not always simple agricultural tools snatched up in a hurry by rural insurrectionists: they could be purpose-built instruments of warfare, too, fashioned with professional skill by proper weapon-smiths.