A study has revealed the amazing power of the English medieval longbow. British researchers have found that they caused horrific injuries, based on their study of human remains. They have likened the wounds inflicted by longbows to those inflicted by modern guns. These findings are helping to explain why the English army was so successful in the Middle Ages .
Between 1997 and 2007, archaeologists excavated the burial site at a Dominican friary in the historic city of Exeter, in the southwest of England. It was unearthed as part of the construction of a shopping mall. At the site “archaeologists discovered at least three teeth and 22 human bone fragments, including near-complete parts of the skull, leg bones, and upper arms,” reports IFL Science . Many of the bone fragments show evidence of trauma. A team of researchers from the University of Exeter studied the remains, which carbon dating revealed to be from the 13th to the 17th century.
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