This crossbow bolt is fitted with a mild steel tip, sized and weighted for use with a medieval-style crossbow.
Crossbow prods historically evolved from single-piece wood (ash or yew) through composite construction to steel by around the 14th century, and the bolts fired from these increasingly powerful weapons needed correspondingly robust tips to match.
Deepeeka’s reproduction recreates that practical crossbow bolt, part of our historical archery range.
This crossbow bolt is fitted with a mild steel tip, sized and weighted for use with a medieval-style crossbow.
Crossbow prods historically evolved from single-piece wood (ash or yew) through composite construction to steel by around the 14th century, and the bolts fired from these increasingly powerful weapons needed correspondingly robust tips to match.
Deepeeka’s reproduction recreates that practical crossbow bolt, part of our historical archery range.
This arrowhead follows the London Museum Type 16 pattern, an intermediate design combining features of both the bodkin and the broadhead.
This hybrid approach gave a genuinely versatile head, offering a degree of the bodkin’s armour-piercing capability alongside some of the broadhead’s wider cutting profile, a practical compromise that saw common use where a single arrow supply needed to serve multiple purposes.
Deepeeka’s reproduction is hand-forged from high carbon steel, sold as a standalone head for mounting onto a shaft of your choice, part of our historical archery range.
This arrowhead follows the bodkin pattern, an armour-piercing head classified as London Museum Type 8 and Jessop military type M8/M9.
The bodkin’s narrow, square cross-section and long tapering point concentrated force onto a small area, letting it punch through mail and gaps in plate armour rather than relying on a wide cutting edge. Archaeological finds of this type date to the 13th through 15th centuries, confirming genuine sustained military use.
Deepeeka’s reproduction is hand-forged from high carbon steel, sold as a standalone head for mounting onto a shaft of your choice, part of our historical archery range.
This arrowhead follows a rhomboid, socketed pattern, documented among medieval European finds including examples recovered from Iberian battle sites.
The diamond-shaped rhomboid profile gave a genuinely strong, tapering point mounted via a socketed base rather than a tang, a widely used medieval construction method suited to both hunting and warfare.
Deepeeka’s reproduction is hand-forged from high carbon steel, sold as a standalone head for mounting onto a shaft of your choice, part of our historical archery range.
This arrowhead follows the London Museum Type 12 pattern, a triangular bodkin form copied directly from surviving medieval originals.
The triangular cross-section gave this bodkin variant genuine rigidity along its length while keeping the point narrow enough for effective armour penetration, a design refinement within the wider bodkin family of war arrowheads.
Deepeeka’s reproduction is hand-forged from high carbon steel, sold as a standalone head for mounting onto a shaft of your choice, part of our historical archery range.
