Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.
1566502001
Four composite arrows, [formerly] joined with wire. [a] Reed shaft, broken at the butt. Bone foreshaft connecting with a wooden shank, bound with sinew, into which an iron blade is tanged.[b] Reed shaft and bone foreshaft only single feather bound to the butt with sinew.[c] Arrow with reed shaft and bone foreshaft only single feather bound to the butt with sinew. [d] Shaft of feather only, bone foreshaft missing.
© The Trustees of the British Museum
To license images for charged-for journals and publications, and other commercial uses, please contact British Museum Images.
Contact BM images
You are permitted to use images from the British Museum website subject to our terms of use.
The image will be released to you under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. You can read more about the British Museum and Creative Commons here.
If you cannot see an image that you want on the British Museum website, you can order new photography from us.
Order new image