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toomanyknots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTotQso20es
toomanyknots:
It would be hard to believe it was that old just from the good condition of the linen whipping in my opinion.
Crogacht:
You'd be surprised what survives in the right conditions. If human tissue can survive thousands of years I'm sure an arrow could survive 600. It certainly looks VERY old.
WillS:
This is an old story, been going round for years. Not sure why they're bringing it up again now.
Looks modern to me. Don't recall ever hearing/reading that linen binding was used - always silk. Plus the leather insert under the nock is used commonly today. Unless the thatched roof the arrow was lodged in (as the story goes) was in perfect condition and never repaired, just replaced over the years, those fletchings would be long gone.
Will wait for carbon dating, and fully prepared to be completely wrong, but currently convinced it's modern. Not a fake, just a modern one lost some years ago and found again.
toomanyknots:
--- Quote from: WillS on July 26, 2014, 07:26:50 pm ---This is an old story, been going round for years. Not sure why they're bringing it up again now.
Looks modern to me. Don't recall ever hearing/reading that linen binding was used - always silk. Plus the leather insert under the nock is used commonly today. Unless the thatched roof the arrow was lodged in (as the story goes) was in perfect condition and never repaired, just replaced over the years, those fletchings would be long gone.
Will wait for carbon dating, and fully prepared to be completely wrong, but currently convinced it's modern. Not a fake, just a modern one lost some years ago and found again.
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That's what I would think. It would make sense that the binding would look so new if it was some of that polyester-fiber blend thread.
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