Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: Buck67 on October 22, 2019, 08:46:53 am
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Does anyone have any information on how Roman arrows were constructed?
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FWIW this article link says there is actually very little known about Roman arrows:
http://www.comitatus.net/romanarrowtest.html
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What little information I have been able to find is that they were three fletched with parabolic feathers glued to the shaft. The two surviving shafts have red, black or white paint. They were string or sinew wrapped only at the self nock. The majority of the arrowheads were three sided of either bronze or steel. Apparently Roman archers were using 90 pound recurves. One shaft was reed that had originally had a hard wood foreshaft the other was all pine.
Just looking for more information.
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the bow was not very popular in the roman army at first
there were auxiliarii troops made of foreign fighters and the bow and arrows reflected their culture.
in the first period those archers where mainly from est
In the imperial era there are more reports of bow use but there seems not to be a standard in archery equipment