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What do you use for Classical arrowheads?
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Any type that was common in the period. I think the important factors are that they should be narrow and light, compared to modern broadheads.

The most authentic ones (with bronze points from Neil or Manning) would be for display and for target-shooting, but I understand reed shafts break more easily than wood or bamboo. So I'm thinking of cheaper points with sturdier shafts for shooting.

OIP 69 has a plate of ones found at Persepolis and I understand the ones from Skythia and Greece aren't a whole lot different. One of them is a tanged, barbed trilobate that looks similar to that one.


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Re: What do you use for Classical arrowheads? - by Dan D'Silva - 07-05-2012, 03:54 PM

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