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Description: | Forged iron arrowhead length 68mm, width 17mm, thickness 9mm, weight 14,46g. Long thin with a diamond cross-section, this is a barbed form that has blades on either side, with a small barbs projecting from the bottom edge of both blades. The socket projects from the bottom but has been truncated. The whole of the surface is encrusted with corrosion, although the original shape is not distorted.
This arrowhead is of a style called a bodkin and was used in the 13th-15th century. This is a specialised form that was developed for use in warfare and was designed to be strong and slender in order to punch holes in to plate armour.
Oliver Jessop, 1996, A New Typology for the Study of Medieval Arrowheads, (in) Medieval Archaeology, The Society for Medieval Archaeology volume 40 (pp 192-205).
Oliver Jessop, 1997, Medieval Arrowheads, Finds Research Group, Datasheet 22. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1200
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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