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Goodmorning I am new to this site so please help if I get things rung let me know.
I am interested I the arrows that were used by the Roman Army Shafts/fletching and heads
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Thanks for that imfo. I am also looking making a bow I have made the normal type mongol.I use only traditional materials horn and the like any imfo would be very useful
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Yes I think I have got some photos I made this first one for a customer who wanted the real thing not the normal glass things on the market.
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David Sim has some good info on making arrowheads in Iron for the Eagles.
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Arrowmaker, you probably already have it, but
http://www.woodbows.com/ has quite a variety of information and finished, or partly finished bows to help. The Mongol Bow they have is pretty close to the Scythian.
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Thanks M Demetrius thanks for link there are a few books I do not have my birthday is soon looks like books books.
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PS anyone know Latin for arrowmaker or fletcher
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Wow, nice site fred! Looks like you are well on the way to having roman arrows already, if I remember Iron for the Eagles correctly! 8)
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I try to please but thanks for the help
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Archer is sagittarius
Arrow is sagitta
Bow is arcus
Bowstring is nervus
Don't have fletch, -er in my dictionary, but feather is penna
Hope that helps some
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thanks for reply is there Latin for maker I think sagitta maker or is there a proper noun that joins them together.
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maker = factor
Latin names are more structured than just translating a craft to Latin, unlike English. Carter, Cooper, Fletcher, Miller, Baker, Carpenter, Smith, all good English craft-surnames, wouldn't be the name of the one who did them in Roma.
If I were an arrow maker, for example, I would still be Marcus Demetrius. "Maker of arrows" would be "Factor sagittarum" just the same. I might be called M. Demetrius, factor sagittarum.
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