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Hallo, ik ben vorige week met de school naar Londen geweest!
Het was zeer indrukwekkend en er was nog veel uit de oorlog te zien.
Je zag zelfs vaker op wat oudere muren een pijl met "shelter" staan!!!
Nu kwam ik ergens een gebouwtje tegen dat een "Broad Arrow" op de muur had staan. Heeft dit misschien iets te maken dat het gebouw dienst deed aan het Engelse leger???
Ik weet eigenlijk niet goed waar ik dit topic nu precies moet plaatsen.
DID YOU KNOW
WHAT IS A BROAD ARROW? - AND WHEREIN LIES THE ORIGIN?
Nearly all of the artefacts recovered from the Invincible had an arrow marked on them in some way. Various means were used to mark the object in antiquity as follows: -
Stamped:- known as being impressed this method was certainly used in 'soft' materials such as leather & wood. A metal stamp was used in the normal way.
Incised:- Meaning to scribe. Quite simply the manufacturer of the original object took a knife or scribe and scratched the arrow into the surface. In particular most of the very hard Lignum vitae sheaves were marked using this method. Also on the ends of the sand glasses were scribed broad arrows.
Evenin modern times, broad arrows, sometimes known as 'crows feet', are used to identify property belonging to her majesty's government. In the early days of the project, during lectures and talks given to various societies etc. much debate often took place as to the origin of the 'broad arrow! Arthur felt therefore, that in order to complete the story of these artefacts accurately, research should be conducted in this area. Together with friend and colleague Les Dury, Arthur came across a very interesting document in the public records office in London U/K.
'THE BROAD ARROW MARK'
The 'Broad Arrow', the Government property mark, originates from 1330, viz:
An illustration of a document dated 1330 issued by Richard de la Pole, the Kings Butler, for the purpose of wine and bearing his seal. This shows that in order to make sure that ownership could be readily established as Kings property, he marked each item with an arrow from his own coat of Arms. The date on this document was 1330! This pre-dated all of the speculative advice given by many historians.
