Behind The Scenes
When a crew of 14 people get together somebody is always taking pictures and the best of the ‘behind the scenes’ photographs can be found here. With a special thank you to Alex Pocklington for his extraordinary arrow impact pictures. An informal look behind the scenes of Arrows Vs Armour2 over the three days of…
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How different are real and commercial mail In earlier times mail was used as a protective augmentation worn over quilted textile armour or some other garment. It could also be lined with denser, thicker padded textile. By the time of Agincourt, mail continued to serve as a key protective material, used in concert with textile…
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In our first film we showed an arrow easily defeating chainmail. But was that mail a true representation of medieval mail? We will test samples of the best, correctly made historical mail, against less expensive, commercially available mail to check the difference in strength and to establish a base line data point for any future…
Read MorePlate armour material test
Armour could be made from thick, high quality steel or thin soft wrought iron and everything in between and knowing how they resist arrows differently is important -how they compare against each other when shot?
Read MoreArrow head material test
Arrow heads could be made from hard steels, but were usually made from soft iron, so does the material type effect penetration through steel and if so, how much?
Read MoreHow Powerful Was A War Bow?
We asked a simple question “Can an arrow defeat armour?” We could never settle this if we used an average bow, so we went big, 160lbs big. We can’t know if this was representative of an average longbow at Agincourt, but we can test different bow weights and see how they compare. Would weaker bows…
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If you do decide to post something up that would be fantastic and this is the outline of the project in as condensed a form as possible. If you would like to change it or add to it or whatever that would be great, and is this way you can talk about the aspects you…
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Read MoreArrow head material test
What head material? Different heads were in use at the time, and we may well come back to look at different head types in future films, but the purpose of this film is to look at the heads we are using for the main AvA2 film; which are type 9 bodkins based on A5698 from…
Read MorePlate armour material test
Which armour material? Armour was made from different materials and of different qualities. At the time of Agincourt most armour on lesser men was still of a low carbon iron or steel, though higher status individuals would often have a medium carbon steel such as that of the Churburg 14 breast plate that we based…
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