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See above for proof that we went to a real smithy. Hector Cole makes arrowheads, sword and knife blades, spearheads and decorative wrought ironwork amongst many other things. We are also hoping to borrow items from Richard Head, who specialises in longbows and arrows but also makes bucklers and coifs to help protect anyone unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end of an English arrow...
http://www.english-longbow.co.uk/
Crossbows were also much in use in 1215, the year that Magna Carta was created. Experimental archaeology (i.e. people having fun shooting at things ranging from a chocolate easter egg to a water melon) shows that a soldier with a bow could loose off many more shots than one with a crossbow. Crossbows, however, had a huge amount of power behind them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mip4wDgZ03Q

King Richard I, known as "Richard the Lionheart", was killed by a quarrel from a crossbow. He was besieging a town called Chalus, and the story goes that one of the defenders, who had run out of quarrels, dug one out which had stuck in the town wall and re-used it, wounding Richard. The King died from an infection in this wound not long afterwards.