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Originally Posted by NobleKnight  I am gathering information about the medieval arrows in England, and interested in any kind of information in the web devoted to the finds, escavations ets.
Are any articles devoted to that posted in the web?
We are trying to make arrows maximum correct to the original source...
For now we use a kind like BLBS Stadard Arrow - but we still need documents, that will prove that we are right!
The weight, section is the question...
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Just to give you an idea; Mine were.... 31 1/2" long x 1/2 inch in diameter. First 10" parallel, then tapered (from that point) down to the nock, which was 3/8" dia; cut slot (with) the grain of the wood, down to 1 3/4" Glue sliver of cow horn into slot ( araldite) Fish glue if you wish to be accurate to medieval practices, but it don't half pong! Cut (across) the grain for your nock; the wood I generally used was Poplar, (Aspen) if I could get it, but used many others; The fletching, I cut triangular, the height being 1 5/8" at the nock end; maximum! To whip the fletches, the spaces should not be more than 1/8" to 3/16"apart; The BLBS measurements were, and are artificial, when little was known about medieval arrows; Then came the raising of the Mary Rose and the picture changed......somewhat! Lot's we don't know, of course; As has been said, Robert Hardy and Hugh Soar's books will give you plenty of the right kind of information. Hope this helps!