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User 144: categorising

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User 144 at 11:34, 17 March 2006

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	'''Arrow heads''' are the sharpened tips of [[arrow]]s. In modern terminology they might be called ''points''.		[[image:arrowheads.jpg\|right\|200px\|thumb\|Replica arrow heads.]]'''Arrow heads''' are the sharpened tips of [[arrow]]s. In modern terminology they might be called ''points''.

	In prehistory they might be simply fire hardened point of the [[shaft]] itself or might be made of [[stone]]. [[Metal]] [[head]]s replaced these and might be of a number of varying types. The end of the head that joins the [[shaft]] might be [[tang]]ed (such as is found on typical [[Viking]] Age [[arrow]]s or many Eastern arrows) or [[socket]]ed as found on later medieval arrow heads and most modern points.		In prehistory they might be simply fire hardened point of the [[shaft]] itself or might be made of [[stone]]. [[Metal]] [[head]]s replaced these and might be of a number of varying types. The end of the head that joins the [[shaft]] might be [[tang]]ed (such as is found on typical [[Viking]] Age [[arrow]]s or many Eastern arrows) or [[socket]]ed as found on later medieval arrow heads and most modern points.

User 144 at 07:23, 16 March 2006

2006-03-16T07:23:13Z

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'''Arrow heads''' are the sharpened tips of [[arrow]]s. In modern terminology they might be called ''points''.

In prehistory they might be simply fire hardened point of the [[shaft]] itself or might be made of [[stone]]. [[Metal]] [[head]]s replaced these and might be of a number of varying types. The end of the head that joins the [[shaft]] might be [[tang]]ed (such as is found on typical [[Viking]] Age [[arrow]]s or many Eastern arrows) or [[socket]]ed as found on later medieval arrow heads and most modern points.

Tanged arrows have a greater tendancy to split the shaft when they strike the target than socketed arrows.

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