Letter: Letters: Time's arrows

Published 3 July 1993

From B. ROBINSON

The yew longbow was not round in section but D-shaped and was in fact a
composite bow. The outer flat face was formed from the thin layer of sapwood
and the inner side from the heartwood.

B. Robinson
Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Issue no. 1880 published 3 July 1993

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