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Rod:

--- Quote from: alanesq on October 27, 2007, 03:34:29 pm ---Just thought someone out there may be interested in this:

I have been pondering a lot on why there were 28" arrow shafts (and all manner of different length shafts for that matter) on the Mary Rose


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This is something that comes up from time to time. Part of the problem is that in later literature much is made of the "clothyard" arrow, but without considering that the typical clothyard was not as long as the current imperial yard...

Also average heights for adult males were somewhat less than in tyhe present day, though not as low as the minimum reached in the Victorian era.
In the 13th & 14thC the average male height in England was about 5' 7 1/2" which naturally would have produced a shorter draw length.

Being 6' 4" with arms, according to my tailor, like an orang outang, my easy corner of the mouth draw is almost 30", and I can long draw over 36" before I reach the limit of my extension and have to rotate my elbow down below the line through the arrow.
In short (no slur intended), Jaro's long draw is about the same as my corner of the mouth draw.

So it is not surprising to find shafts in the 28" ballpark.

Rod.

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