“Armour“ Piercing with Medieval-style Arrows - Video 14

The modern day debate over whether or not arrows penetrated medieval armour in the 14th and 15th centuries is one that is conducted by those “for“ and “against“ with almost as much passion as the combatants on the fields of Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt fought during the Hundred Years War. What cannot be ignored by either side is that there are contemporary records from eye witnesses to these battles and others, that record both arrows penetrating plate armour, and of arrows bouncing off. No reasonable p