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Check this out yall
WillS:
What's funny is that Hector Cole released a fairly detailed document about this arrow years and years ago, with measurements and head specifications etc. I mentioned this on the Facebook thread and got my wrist slapped for "making assumptions" so I'm not entirely sure what they're doing. Hopefully as they say it'll go in front of the Craft Guild of Fletchers and they'll get a definitive reply and if not, then Leeds Armoury will date it.
Isn't that nock end messy? Looks like it was a rush job. Almost makes sense for it to be genuine if it was made in a hurry along with thousands of others for livery use.
OTDEAN:
Don't know why you find it hard to believe this might be real, wait for the carbon dating and see.
WillS:
Cos it's around 600 years old and the fletchings are still there...
Like I said, might be genuine. I'd be surprised but would love to be proven wrong!
JW_Halverson:
I did a little (not more than that, really) and it appears if a professional thatching job is done with high quality thatching reeds, not straw, you can expect the roof to last about 60 years. If that was the case, this 600 yr old thatched roof would have been replaced approximately 10 times.
Granted, I am writing this on assumption that the arrow was found in the thatching, I don't know because I am at work and the audio cannot be turned on with this computer. I didn't get to hear what was being said.
Still, one loves a good mystery!
OTDEAN:
Well at 600 years old is not as old as a full set of birch arrows with feathers and a mongolian horn sinew bow that exists from the time of Genghis Khan. Go figure.
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