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Pre 14thC bulbous English arrows.

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bow-toxo:
davecrocket ====A few points. No doubt about two fingers ?  Our three written mediaeval instruction sources say three fingers. Four vane fletching if cut lower and not helical would not increase drag. The difference between a hunting and a war shaft;:the hunting bow being weaker, it would take a thinner shaft. If the Anthony of Burgundy arrow is indeed 12 mm= ½ inch thick, [I doubt it] it would be the thickness of MR war arrows, therefore would be a war arrow. Re.bulbous nocks, I think they were left thick to be less likely to split. It was, and is, a lot quicker and easier for a fletcher to taper a shaft to the very end which can be done with a plane and chuting board, even with insertion of the then advisable horn slip provided by a horner, than to taper one up to the full sized nock. The tapered shaftment [ what you call ‘aftshaft’] was for better recovery from archers paradox. An Alemannic arrow is 1cm thick at head and nock tapered to 57.4 mm just before the noch swelling. The only arrowhead of flat plate I have seen is a single Viking forked head, no resemblance to yours which is shaped like a stone arrowhead. Of course Anthony bouight his arrows like everyone else except wartime archers who got livery [issued]  arrows from their lord or king, and he was a lord.

                                                        Erik

Rod:
Given the title (pre 14thC bulbous English arrows) I'm wondering why so much time is being spent on discussing a picture of a 15thC Burgiundian.  :-)

Rod.

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