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Check this out yall
mikekeswick:
Where was it said it was 'sticking out'? For something like this to have been hidden all this time wouldn't that suggest to you it wasn't 'sticking out'?
Why on earth would they not have used linen to bind the feathers on. Silk would not always have been available 100% of the time...maybe the fletcher had just run out, maybe he didn't like silk...who knows but just because it's not silk means nothing.There are many ancient arrows with fletching intact that have been found all around the world.
mikekeswick:
Oh and surely it's obvious why this video has been made? Advertising, advertising, advertising ;)
OTDEAN:
My money is on this being authentic. Not everyone would have used silk like Mike said, to think otherwise is just dogma. Just like people used to insist that you had to leave a log out in the sun for years before it was dry enough to make a bow, again dogma.
PatM:
At no point do they say the arrow was found in the thatch, that was just an assumption
It may have just been lying on the loft floor after having gone through the original thatch. An arrow lying in a dark loft amongst other debris isn't going to stand out too much.
Could have been buried under a few hundred years worth of chaff from hay or straw.
meanewood:
Has anyone got an update on the testing of the arrow found?
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