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WillS:
Some. Like I said, there is artwork showing some archers using a glove. But no tabs.
A glove would make this arrow even less practical. I can understand fully the concern in damaging the object by having it dated, as it will require removing some of the shaft, but you'd think with something so rare they'd be jumping at the chance to know?
Pat B:
Did they mention what the shaft is? Was it split timber or shoot shafting? Wouldn't carbon dating give a basic age to the shaft, fletch, leather and binding?
Yeomanbowman:
close inspection of the shaft shows it is very smooth with no apparent pins, knots or tooling marks. It looks to be made from cleeved stock.
WillS:
Jeremy, have there been any thoughts on the wood species? It doesn't appear to be heavily grained like ash, so is it likely to be something along the lines of aspen or birch?
Yeomanbowman:
Yes, aspen is what Richard and Hector think and I can't say I disagree. It must the dense aspen as it's quite heavy(ish) given that Weapons of Warre states that many of the arrows may have been in the mid 40g range, from memory. Could be birch, though, as you say.
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