[Longbow (detail)]

Hi Lost Warrior,nice Bow you have there!

In England we call those Bows FlatBows because our Longbows (Elb) have a specific design to stick too.A English Butt Bow (Victorian style for hunting) is shaped like a D with the rounded part being the belly,it has no built up riser (handle) but the handle area can bulge out a little.Only the limbs are working on these types of Bows same as your Bow,the handle area is stiff and doesnt bend.A Horn arrow pass may be used but not allways so,the handle area is allso covered with a grip usually leather.The Nocks have to be made of Horn,historically Cow was used but today Buffalo Horn from India is most common.

 

What types of wood are in your Bow?can you give us the specs?

Whats its length Nock to Nock,whats the draw weight,what length is it tillered to,what size arrows are you using?

I love talking Bows .

 

The English WarBow is not to be confused with the English lonbow,Longbows or Butt Bows were designed by the Victorians for target shooting not for Wars.The Bows used during the wars were a different design shot in a different style and much more deadly.WarBows have no handles and no stiff area,they bend full cumpass which gives a lot more power.

My WarBow is 77" Nock to Nock 75lb at a 32" draw,the 32"draw is important for WarBows,32" is past your ear making your aiming a instinct and not a sight as you do with the victorian 28" draw to a anchor point on the face,usually the chin or cheekbone.

My Bow was made by a English Bowyer called Steve Stratton who's one of the best Bowyers in the world at making military spec WarBows,but there is a couple of excellent Bowyers in America who are now making EWB's,i can get you deatails if you want one LW?

Here's a pic of it,its a laminate made from Hickory,lemonwood and greenheart with white Cowhorn Nocks.

The hand area,the cross is the arrow mark.

Size comparison with a Hungarian HorseBow (which is a joy to shoot!)

Arrows,32" cedar shaft with 7.5" goose feather fletchings and a steel field point (making a new batch now with some armour piercing heads :2guns:).

 

 

Longbow.

[Poppy-pain killer and hallucogen]

What is "disturbed farmland"?

Arable that has been "opened up" and left in a state of disorder- topsoil having been moved across site, a good example is where the poppies flourish when earth is heaped up randomly during road building. Not a type of Psychotic Soil profile.

 

Its allso the reason we wear Poppies as remembrance to our war dead (In Britain anyway,not sure about the rest of the world) once a year.Poppies grow all over battle fields (Somme,etc) because of the disturbance the Artillery caused to the top soil.

 

L

[Hadrian's Wall Eastern extremity]

Its been a while since i had a drive up to the wall,i live just below Hetton le hole,bottom right on the map.

Ramses asks why it was built when there was so few attacks,its worth remembering that the wall wasnt just a barrier against invasion,it was allso a way of controlling the trade between the tribes.If you wanted to sell your goods in the north you would have to go through the Roman controlled gatehouse and obviously vice versa.Then you could be taxed on your goods.

I think it was a great idea for the Romans to have. The problem I have is that the invasion force can concentrate their men in one area and bulldoze through. If you have thin stretched out lines of men, a large force is bound to go through

 

Only certain parts could be attacked like that because of the geography of the ground,a lot of the wall is built across ridges,it follows the contours (spelling) of the land.

[3rd Century mounted Auxilliae (Banna)]

Nice pics m8,what breed of Pony are they riding?

[on the prowl]

Peregrines have moved in British cities too,thay seem to be thriving in the urban environment,plenty of pigeons to eat.

[Alpaca Earring fashions]

They allso have the advantage of a padded cloved hoof,so they dont do any damage to the ground unlike cattle and sheep.Beautiful animals.

[Centurion]

yeah i know m8,it looks daft,i was just messing around with it, i dont know what i'm doing yet.

L

[Cohort]

Thanks m8,its a photo of some reanactors i played around with.