Medieval Style Arrow Heads

Welcome to another Richard Headlongbow's video. It's just me on my own at the moment. No, it's not. My lip's hiding. I am here. We always sell a few, at least keep some in stock, of Hector Cole's hand forged medieval style arrowheads. Say that twice quickly. No, you forgot what I was saying. Anyway, we usually keep them or I keep them in my old Havana Cuban cigar box. Look at that. Which I've stopped smoking now. So you can't get these anymore. Rolled on the thighs of dusky maidens or whatever they were. I don't see a track. I'm not sure they ever were. Anyway, they're in here. So don't break them. This is what we've got in stock at the moment. Those aren't cigars. So there's a whole range here from a type 10 bodkin, small one, to a larger type 10 bodkin. These have got about a three-eighths socket, so designed for a three-eighths. Something a bit bigger, Devizes Swallowtail, copied from one that's actually in the Museum of Devizes a few miles away from here. Long cutting edge on them, a hunting head. On from that is this, which is the same thing but with these wings sort of splayed out to give a nasty cutting edge. And there is a medieval illustration of a surgeon removing one of these from some unfortunate person who was hit. And the only way they could get them out, they couldn't pull them back, they had to push them out through the body and hope no vital organs had been damaged on the way. I expect they just died slowly of blood poisoning. Hector usually puts his mark on them just in case they're found in a hundred years' time and people know they weren't made in the Middle Ages. That's a broadhead, slightly curved. I think that's probably a curved broadhead. Again, Hector's mark on them. Devizes Swallowtail. That is sort of like a straight broadhead but it's just slightly splayed out. Back in the day, back in the Middle Ages, every smith would have had his own, just slight variation on a design that he thought would do the job better. Ooh, that is a Viking type. Tang, so it's got a tang that goes into the shaft. Nice one, that. Yeah, it is. That's definitely a straight broadhead. Nice. Needle bodkin. Yeah. Type 13, is that? Yes, I think so. Getting our type right. Nice one, that. What else have we got? Type 6, hunting head. Tudor bodkin. Probably similar to those found, or would have been found on the Mary Rose, had they not all rusted away. Another common head in the Middle Ages was the type 16 warhead. I think that's about it. We've obviously got several of large type 10s, again, armour-piercing bodkins, several of those, got a few type 16s. So, ooh, what's that one? This is an arrowhead, again made by Hector, and it's got his mark on it. This is a copy of an arrowhead found in France on the Crecy battlefield, and Hector has made it from medieval iron, iron from the period. I don't know where he's got it from, but he has a certain amount of genuine medieval iron, and the makeup is different from this material he normally makes the arrowheads from. So, if you want something that's as near original as possible, that is it. And it comes with a certificate of authenticity, signed by the master himself, and that comes with each arrowhead. If you screen grab this, you can print your own. I've never read it, what does it say? It's a joke. This is an unforged copy of an original war bodkin arrowhead found on the battlefield at Crecy, France. Replica arrowhead has been forged from medieval iron of the period, being forged by Master Arrowsmith Hector Cole, MBE FWCB. Hector Cole, March 2026. So, this is a new one. It's not medieval at all. He's put the wrong date on, surely. So, there we go. So, they're worth having. I wish I had one. Yeah, you don't seem to keep them very long, do you? No. Yeah, these are all made by Hector Cole, who, like the rest of us, is not getting any younger. In fact, he's getting a lot older. I hope he's not watching. No, don't watch this, Hector. Keep hammering away in his forge. He's determined to keep hammering away in his forge, but he isn't going to go on forever. So, these are available at the moment, and who knows for how long. We're not saying he's about to die. No, of course not. But, you never know. That stray bus. Thanks for watching. No, he's already fallen off the roof once. No, don't. Don't. Don't tempt fate. Bye, everyone. Yeah, thank you. Thank you for watching.