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A special jig was used to turn staves of square cross section into rounded shafts with a selection of planes.

Alexander Romance, 14th centuryД«eing of strategical importance for war and also the defense of towns, fletchers often profited from tax reduction or even exemption as in 14th century Vienna.ДЄrrow shafts from the high and late Middle Ages were made from wooden boards. Two fletchers at work, finished arrows packed in barrels. In 1417 six feathers from every goose within the realm had to be delivered to the Tower, with the Counties being mandated to supply a total of 1,190,000 goose feathers in the following year. Raw materials were also stored centrally. For example, it is recorded that in the year 1360 alone, half a million arrows were delivered to the royal armouries in the Tower of London the year before it had been another 850,000.ДЇletchers throughout the country were responsible for this mass production, but they supplied not only the Tower, but also other royal armouries as in Bristol (11,000 arrows in 1346) as well as individual nobles who had to equip their own personal retinue. After the experiences of the Welsh and Scottish wars, contingents of archers remained a regular part of practically every English army until well into the 16th century.ДЄrchery became a mandatory exercise for all able-bodied men, and the yeomen archers who could handle the strong yew warbow were held in much higher esteem вЂ“ and paid considerably more вЂ“В than in other European countries.Дocumentation of production, storage, and use of arrows is particularly rich for the time of the Hundred Years War (1337-1456) with France.

The situation in England differed from the rest of the continent. Examples of such arrowheads have indeed been found, but are mostly referred to as вЂrope cuttersвЂ™ in modern literature. The вЂsagitta bifurcataвЂ™ was a forked point with two blades sharpened on the inside.ДЄccording to Petrus it was able to cut through a wild gooseвЂ™s or other large fowlвЂ™s neck or wing. Petrus de Crescentiis, a 14th century author, recommends the use of a special arrow to hunt big birds.

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The late medieval illustrated examples appear bigger than the originals discovered in Haithabu, which may be due to artistic license or reflect an actual change in design. It has a blunt wooden tip and is used for hunting hare, rabbit, squirrel, and other small furry game, so as not to damage their pelt. Wide, two-bladed arrowheads were able to make big wounds causing heavy blood loss, so the prey was weakened quickly if the hit had not been fatal at once.ДЄnother kind of arrow is often shown in hunting treatises and other book illustrations as well. The arrows depicted in his вЂThe Book of the HuntвЂ™ match this description quite well. Gaston Phoebus (1331-1391), the Count of Foix and most famous hunting author of the late Middle Ages recommends two-bladed arrowheads, вЂwell sharpened and filedвЂ™, which should be вЂfive fingers long and exactly four fingers wideвЂ™ between the barbs. Here we find arrows not only in image, but also in descriptive texts, which finally offer some details on their manufacture and use. The noble hunt on the other hand increasingly became the subject of illustrated manuscripts from the 14th century onwards. Bows and arrows were a favourite hunting weapon for both nobles and common folk вЂ“В even though the hunting practices of the latter were usually classed as poaching and are mainly documented in court protocols and other judicial documents.

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