ENGLISH LONGBOW ARROWHEAD, 13TH-14TH CENTURY

For the legendary Welsh/English longbow. Forged iron, just over 2‰۝ length with a tapered tang on the cylindrical bolster and thick rounded triangular point. See Celtic Warriors, Newark, p.90 bottom for two similar examples in the Welsh National Museum, Cardiff. Excavated and professionally conserved and stable. Considerable well grouped statistics regarding the capabilities of the Welsh longbow exist though not a single bow has survived. The Mary Rose, dating well past the prime of the longbow and firmly into the plate armor period produced 137 complete longbows (16^th century) and over 3500 arrows, none of which was preserved with its point! Exceedingly rare and important.