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A Guide to the mediaeval room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room; (1907)

British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 93

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65 ARMS AND ARMOUR archers became especially famous, was a ' self-bow usually of yew, about five feet long, with arrows barbed at the points : it was effective at a range of about 250 yards. The short oriental weapon with counter-curves, and made of plates of horn and sinews glued together, was not … cannon and the hand-gun is seen in the portable cul- Fig. 61. — Cross-bow, sixteenth century, verins already in use in the fourteenth centurj^ But the matchlock arqiicbus,ihQ first weapon which could be rapidly wielded by a single man, was invented in Spain in the first half of the sixteenth…

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