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Deeds of Arms and Other Matters Medieval and Otherwise
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- Will McLean
- I’ve been involved in medieval recreation since 1975. I contributed to a manual for living history that later grew into the book Daily Life in Chaucer’s England, and have written and illustrated several articles on the medieval tournament. This blog is mostly a platform for my other writing about the Middle Ages, and whatever else moves me: other history, movies, SF, space exploration, contemporary politics and economics. You can find my livejournal feed at Willscommonplac
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3 comments:
It's just as likely that these arrowheads were hardened in order to help them keep an edge so they cut better against fleshy targets (e.g., horses)--that's how most arrows did their damage, and casual handling can ruin the edge of a soft iron weapon. After all, primary-source accounts show us that arrows almost never penetrated plate armor, so where does this sudden need to find plate armor-piercing arrows come from? And if the bodkin points were intended to penetrate mail--the only kind of armor that could be reliably penetrated--they wouldn't need to be hardened which explains why they weren't.
Regards--Hugh
There in fact numerous examples of hardened arrowheads. Do by all means read the book 'secrets of the english warbow' by Hugh Soar for example, this will make things more clear for you on the subject of plate armour piercing.
The Royal Armouries article is now here
http://www.royalarmouries.org/what-we-do/research/analytical-projects/armour-piercing-arrowheads
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