An article on issues which the forum often discusses
https://www.academia.edu/7691143/Arrows ... ail_armour
"It is very easy to debunk the above theory: simply produce an extant bodkin for a longbow arrow made from hardened steel."
We don't have a single longbow arrowhead of a bodkin typology made of hardened steel.
Crossbow bolt heads are not longbow arrow heads.
The other problem is the lack of an arrowhead that was used on Smythe's flight arrows.
Just to repeat
The mail that I used was within the medieval range of thickness to ring diameter ratio (see Table 1).The thickness of the wire is generally too light for the diameter of the link.
Not on the wedge-riveted mail that I used. See the left hand rings in Figure 1.Holes are made with a punch rather than a drift. This leaves a lot less metal around the rivet to help secure it....Rivet holes are either too large or not centred.
. A few were. That is why the mail was carefully inspected and any defective rivets replaced.Rivets are incorrectly set
.There isn't enough overlap in the lapped section of the link to create a decent join
.Wrong shape rivet hole. Indian mail has rectangular holes
Why is this a problem? Smythe wrote in 1590
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