Arrow with socketed iron head inserted into wooden foreshaft. Shaft has 4 sloping sides and is bound with vegetable fibre. Head has leaf shaped tip. Multiple feather flights bound to bottom of shaft at each end with vegetable fibre binding. Shaft has notch and binding at bottom end.
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