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How many strands in a string.
adb:
I'm guessing Ian meant the few hundred years of the medieval period.
Ian.:
--- Quote from: adb on July 09, 2011, 02:31:16 am ---I'm guessing Ian meant the few hundred years of the medieval period.
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I did, I am well aware of the Otiz bow and string but to much time has passed between the Otiz artefacts and the Medieval period for them to be in any way linked.
bow-toxo:
--- Quote from: adb on July 08, 2011, 09:41:13 am ---My point, Erik, is that no one (not even you) knows FOR SURE the make up of a medieval bow string, because one does not exist.
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That is like saying that no one can be sure 6that Attila the Hun really existed. As there is no known tomb, corpse or picture, we rely on written histories. It really takes a fool to dismiss them. However we have to ask ” Is there a motive for lying”?
Craig. There may have been little change in manufacture during the mediaeval period when guilds discouraged new ideas as unfair competition, but hemp became more used in the later Middle Ages.
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CraigMBeckett:
--- Quote from: Ian. on July 09, 2011, 04:35:49 pm ---
--- Quote from: adb on July 09, 2011, 02:31:16 am ---I'm guessing Ian meant the few hundred years of the medieval period.
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I did, I am well aware of the Otiz bow and string but to much time has passed between the Otiz artefacts and the Medieval period for them to be in any way linked.
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Mid 400 to mid 1400's is 1000 years, which on any reckoning is more than a few hundred.
As for no link between bows used in the Medieval period with those used in prehistory, my my what a claim! You say you are aware of Otzo's bow, well take a minute or two to think of its basic design, do you see any similarities between it and the bows at Rotten Bottom, Ashcott Heath, Hedeby, Ballinderry Cranog and on the Mary Rose, 5,000 years of development of the same type of bow
Erik,
The guilds only came into existence late in the medieval period and were only in existence as fully operating guilds for something of the order of 200 years most of which was later than the medieval period, yet bows were used throughout the 1000 years of the medieval period. Look at the relative weights of the Hedeby bows and the heavier Mary Rose bows, don't you think that the manufacture of strings had to go through massive changes to accommodate the Mary Rose weights in a string only 3.2 mm in diameter?
adb:
Well, Erik, I'm not disputing that either Attila the Hun or medieval bow strings existed. What I am saying is, we will never know for sure the details of either Attila's life or medieval bow strings, because we can not examine them first hand. So, for you to say on this forum, that 'medieval bow strings were 3 strands' is hog wash. It's like saying Attila had 14 wives, maybe... but something we will never know for sure.
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