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Max. length?
WillS:
--- Quote from: Bearded bowyer on November 30, 2013, 01:21:13 pm ---You could contact the Mary Rose museum and ask, it must be catalogued somewhere.....
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No need. Every single bow is catalogued in Weapons of Warre with drawings, cross sections, weight, draw weight, style, shape, length etc. Even a table of each bowyers mark and how often they occur. Plus arrows, horn nocks, strings, cannons, shoes, maille, gunshot, hand guns, pikes... All meticulously measured, analysed... It's stunning. If you were to contact the museum Alex Hildred will only direct any queries regarding the bows to her book anyway, with good reason!
Andi, I referring to Steve Stratton. In fact, if you look through the threads in this section he's posted quite a few photos of his Mary rose replicas.
Bearded bowyer:
Hi Wills
Are people still allowed to got to the museum and handle/ get close and personal with the bows?
I haven't been yet.
WillS:
Up until the new museum launch it was pretty straightforward, but not any more. You need a good number of contacts and a good reason to be allowed before they let you anywhere near. I'll enquire with them what it is what's in charge and see if I'm allowed to name a few people who are worth knowing, but generally speaking it's tricky now.
It is worth becoming a Friend Of The Mary Rose Museum however, as they often have events and talks on and if you're a Friend (it's a bit pricey of course) you get invited. Can sometimes involve handling one or two bows and the odd arrow. Real shame it's become so hard, but then I guess they're incredibly precious objects so letting various people in gets risky after a while.
It is WELL worth going anyway though. The museum almost feels like a warbow display case, the bows are everywhere on every floor and on the top floor there's an entire room dedicated to them. They're in glass cases but you can get so close that you can see knots, grain and tool marks.
Bearded bowyer:
Sounds amazing.
I wonder if I can bribe the wife and kids to make the trip from Cambridge.....
May be a solo trip me thinks ;)
Bearded bowyer:
Are there any skeletons of the archers on display? as an osteopath I am particularly interested in the skeletal changes of the archers.
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